‘A People’s History’ is one output of Inclusive Histories, a three-year AHRC-funded project led by Royal Holloway, University of London, the AQA exam board, and nine museum, archive and library partners to support the more inclusive teaching of UK political history.
Reports and surveys conducted by the Royal Historical Society, the Historical Association, the AQA exam board, Parentkind and Pearson, and End Sexism in Schools, have all highlighted calls for the history curriculum to better reflect the diversity of British history by teachers and students alike. Inclusive Histories tackled this challenge where efforts to teach more inclusively have been most difficult: Key Stage 4 (GCSE).
Working with teacher consultants and our nine founding archive, museum and library partners, our Postdoctoral Research Associates were tasked with helping to identify stories that help to foreground traditionally marginalised voices and agency in the struggle for rights and representation. This has included a focus on women, disabled, LGBTQ+, Black and global majority, and working class people’s histories.
These stories underpin the educational resources you find on this website, created by our project team and teacher consultants. These resources includes subject knowledge-building articles for teachers, videos, curated primary sources, classroom slide decks, and a wide variety of worksheets and activities.
This website also contains reflections on the teaching of these stories written by consultant teachers, articles written by guest contributors, and creative works inspired by the themes of the project produced by community researchers based at Glasgow Women’s Library, the Working Class Movement Library, and Black Cultural Archives.
Yes, we welcome enquiries from teachers able to test or provide feedback on our resources, or simply keen to be kept up to date on the latest stories to be featured on this website. We also have a range of ways in which teachers can be more formally involved as paid consultants and a variety of CPD opportunities we can offer your department.
Yes, we are always happy to hear from archives, libraries or museums that have stories and collections they would like to help get into the classroom relating to the history of rights and representation, and we can normally offer support in developing case studies and classroom resources to make this possible. Please get in touch for more details.
If you would like to contribute an short article to this website please get in touch to start a conversation. We are particularly keen to hear from early career researchers. You do not need to have an academic affiliation to take part.