The BASA Alternative Curriculum

We wish to retain the following key statements and concepts from the 2008 curriculum:

History ...  encourages mutual understanding of the historic origins of our ethnic and cultural diversity, and helps pupils become confident and questioning individuals.

…Understanding the diverse experiences and ideas, beliefs and attitudes of

men, women and children in past societies and how these have shaped the world

.... Pupils should explore cultural, ethnic and religious diversity and racial equality. Diversity exists within and between groups due to cultural, ethnic, regional, linguistic, social, economic, technological, political and religious differences

….All pupils should be taught aspects of history, including ... the impact through time of the movement and settlement of diverse peoples to, from and within the British Isles

… All pupils should be taught aspects of history, including ... the impact through time of the movement and settlement of diverse peoples to, from and within the British Isles.

…. the development of trade, colonisation, industrialisation and technology, the British Empire and its impact on different people in Britain and overseas, pre-colonial civilisations, the nature and effects of the slave trade, and resistance and decolonisation.  

….Explore the ways in which the past has helped shape identities,

shared cultures, values and attitudes today

And, expanding on this section of the current curriculum:

the development of trade, colonisation, industrialisation and technology,

the British Empire and its impact on different people in Britain and

overseas, pre-colonial civilisations, the nature and effects of the slave

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Pupils should be taught about:

1. Ancient Egypt and other great African civilizations: e.g. Kingdom of Ghana, est. c.400; Kingdom of Kanem-Bornu (modern-day Chad) est. c.784; Zimbabwe est. c. 1100; Kongo, est. c.1350, etc.

2. Africans in Roman Britain

<!--[if !supportLists]-->-       <!--[endif]-->The numerous Maurorum Aurelianorum (c.100-c.400), Hadrian’s wall;

<!--[if !supportLists]-->-        <!--[endif]-->Emperor Septimus Severus (145 – 211), Quintus Lollius Urbicus and other African-born Romans.

3. Medieval images of Africa: Mandeville’s Travels, Maps, etc.

4. Africans in Early Modern Britain

<!--[if !supportLists]-->i)              <!--[endif]-->Africans at the Scottish court of James IV, 1501-1513.

<!--[if !supportLists]-->ii)             <!--[endif]-->Africans in Tudor England

<!--[if !supportLists]-->iii)           <!--[endif]-->African characters in early modern literature

5. The Imperial project: colonization and empire.

-Exploration, early trading and first colonies under Elizabeth I and James I

6. The Slave Trade

7. Africans in 18^th Century Britain: Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho,  Phillis Wheatley, Ottobah Cugoano, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, William Ansah Sessarakoo, Francis Barber.

8. Slavery and the Law- to include the Somerset case, Joseph Knight vs. Wedderburn, the Zong.

9. Abolition: the struggle

10. Resistance

<!--[if !supportLists]-->i)              <!--[endif]-->Small-scale daily resistance

<!--[if !supportLists]-->ii)             <!--[endif]-->Haitian Revolution

<!--[if !supportLists]-->iii)           <!--[endif]-->Maroons

11. The rise of pseudo-“scientific” racism

12. Africans in 19^th century Britain

William Cuffay

Robert Wedderburn

William Davidson

Mary Seacole

Ira Aldride

Samuel Coleridge Taylor

13. Africans in 20^th century Britain

Pan-Africanism and the ‘Black’ press

Henry Sylvester Williams, Dusé Mohammed Ali, John Archer

1919 ‘Race riots’

Key organisations: League of Coloured Peoples, WASU, International African Service Bureau, Pan-African Federation

Key Figures: Harold Moody, Ladipo Solanke, George Padmore

-African servicemen and women in the World Wars

-The Windrush generation

14. The Civil Rights Movement in the UK; The Campaign for Racial Equality, ‘Black Power’

Sources:

D. Dabydeen, J. Gilmore, and C. Jones, eds.,The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford, 2005).

P. Fryer, Staying power: the history of black people in Britain (1984).

Guardian black history timeline: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2008/oct/13/black-history-month-timeline

Black History 4 Schools website [http://www.blackhistory4schools.com]

Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain, 1500-1850 The National Archives, Exhibitions and Learning Online [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/]

2008 National Currciculum: https://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/secondary/b00199545/history