Comparative portrayals of the British Empire in history textbooks, 1920s–2020s

Posted by Catriona McDermid and Stuart Foster on 2024-12-06

For this special series of HERJ on History Education in Historical Perspective, we wanted to link the theme of the series with our current research exploring how the British Empire, migration and belonging are taught in English secondary schools (see portraitemb.co.uk). We compared how histories of the British Empire were narrated in English history textbooks from the 1920s and 1930s with how [...]

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Learning from history – how could it work?

Posted by Maren Tribukait on 2024-10-25

There has been a lot of discussion on whether it is possible to learn from history – especially from the abysses of the 20th century. In the current political situation, this question seems to be more relevant than ever as quite a few people seem to have forgotten about the era of National Socialism and fascism. Although there might be a lot of reasons for this, I wondered whether the pedagogical [...]

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