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Decolonising the curriculum: resources

Resources to support decolonising the curriculum in education.

Books and literature

Maps, timelines and interactive tours

Beyond Banglatown – a story of empire and migration, of settlement, of urban change, of place-making and the struggle to belong.

Black and British – An interactive selection of art and culture in the UK.
 
Black History timeline – 600 years of Haringey’s black history.
 
Colourful Heritage – South Asian histories in Scotland with a timeline, video interviews, and interactive map.
 
Mapping 100 Years of Black and Asian History – An interactive map and collection of articles exploring Black and Asian History from Historic England.
 
Native Land Digital – An interactive map that highlights historic and present-day indigenous territories, treaties and languages across the globe.
 
Our migration story – The often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the British Isles.
 

Places of South Asian Heritage in England – 30 places of South Asian Heritage in England.

Networks

Online learning

Other resources

10 Black British artists to celebrate – Artists who’ve had a significant impact on British art.
 
100 Great Black Britons – Lessons and activities for subject areas covered in KS1; KS2; KS3 and KS4.
 
African kingdoms – Resources for teachers planning to teach West African history.
 
Anti-racist Art Education – A collection of resources from NSEAD
 
Bangla Stories – Based on a three year histories project.
 
Black British history on record – Records relating to British citizens of African and African-Caribbean descent.
 
Black cultural archives – The home of Black British History.
 
Black presence in Britain – A collection of sources about Black British people.
 
British Histories of Race, Migration and Empire – A crowdsourced collection of resources for teachers, students and researchers exploring histories of race, migration and empire.
 
Cargo classroom – Poetry, film and llustrations for KS3 curriculum.
 
Decolonizing the music room – Free content from Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian contributors in music ed, performance, ethnomusicology, and other fields.
 
Global dimension – Teaching resources to bring connection, compassion and conversation to your classroom.
 
Gypsy Roma and Traveller History and Culture – A summary of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history, heritage and culture.
 

GRT LGBTQ+ Spoken History Archive – Oral histories of LGBTQ+ individuals from a variety of international Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.

Making Histories – A collection of family histories and migration stories documented by young people in Cardiff, Leicester, Sheffield, Manchester and London.

Meanwhile, elsewhere – Go to the period and topic you are studying on the drop down bar, and download a work-sheet that will introduce you to a whole new part of history that was happening around the same time.
 
Miranda Kaufmann’s research on Black British History – A collection of Kaufmann’s work.
 
Moving people, changing places – Explore migration histories through multimedia content on locations, identities and cultures.
 
Museum of British colonialism – a network and platform for facilitating global conversations about British colonialism and its legacies.
 
My Learning – Free learning resources from arts, cultural and heritage organisations.
 
Oral histories of migration, ethnicity and post-colonialism – A collection of oral history sources from the British Library offer insights into ethnicity and post-colonial experience in the UK.
 
Project Empire – An editorial project about the British empire, imperial history and the legacy of British colonialism.
 
Roma stories oral history project – Explore experiences and oral stories of Roma people from Eastern and Central Europe who live in London.
 
South Asians in Britain – Explore this collection of contemporary accounts, photographs, letters, newspapers and pamphlets from the British Library depicting South Asian history in the UK 1858–1950.
 
The making of Black Britain – An oral history project: a uniquely British story of nationality, identity, and belonging.
 

What do the stories of the ‘often forgotten armies’ reveal about the Western Front? – The experience of African, Asian and First Nation soldiers and labourers at the Western Front.

Where Are the Black Women? – Exploring the Black women in Scotland’s past.

Decolonising the curriculum: a reading list

A collection of key reading. Updated as new learning takes place. Last updated: November 2022 Defining decolonisation Why I Say ‘Decolonisation is Impossible’   Adebisi. 2019.   Article ‘Without critical thought, representation can become toxic and tokenistic, people could be included into spaces that are not safe for them, spaces

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