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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