In what to many might have seemed unpromising conditions, Alex Bloom, an exceptional educator, headteacher and innovator, built a thriving example of radical democratic education... (read more)

Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture

The Norman Conquest brought French kings, language and culture across the Channel. What did that mean for medieval England?

Seventy pioneers who helped shape the first Notting Hill Carnival in 1966 have been commemorated with a plaque. ➡️ https://t.co/Qqe6TqloXV

In 1833, slavery in the British Empire was abolished, but not without a massive compensation scheme paid out to slave owners. Some of that money flowed to colonial Australia. Two-thirds of Australia's...

Cambridge OCR A level and GCSE History Teacher Network. Bringing together teachers with an interest in Empire and Migration.

Mentoring History Teachers in the Secondary School supports mentors to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding essential to the successful mentoring of beginning history teachers who are under...

Research is underway to uncover the identity of two teenagers in 17th Century portrait.

A $575,000 grant from a North American funder will support the development of a database of enslaved people at the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS).

Family of the then PM, Patrice Lumumba, welcome decision to charge Étienne Davignon as ‘beginning of a reckoning’

Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...

UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.

The Curriculum PATHS – PATHfinders blog posts build on our mission to encourage and support history teachers in their work to creating empowering history curricula for their pupils. We hope that the P...

This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars

This session will look at the Kingdom of Dahomey

YouTube video by Enrico Fertini

Editorial: The push for fairer cartography rejects colonial shrinkage of a huge continent by the Mercator projection. This is not pedantry. It’s politics