We're currently learning about Walter Tull in Year 8 and Robert F Williams in Year 9. ...
Thanks for the references - interesting to read about.
...Over 65% of my school are of Black African or Caribbean descent (although most are now third generation British) so it [BHM] is of more relavance to them than the Battle of Hastings or the English Civil War. ...
Hmmm... that is debatable! Hastings = introduction of an oppressive coloniser to the UK, leading eventually to the birth of democracy and the Magna Carta. English Civil War = fight between elected/democratic Parliament and the traditionalist Royalist powers, ending up in a victory for the former leading to a dictatorship.
PS: full respect to all teachers of course. Not a job I could do well!
