Conference Saturday 17 May

Revealing hidden histories and geographies of empire: what demands we should make of the our education system

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Join us at Weston Park Museum on Saturday May 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM for the conference, “Revealing hidden histories and geographies of empire: what demands should we make of our education system? 

‘The way that history is taught in schools and universities is telling half a story.‘ (1)

‘Geography needs to face up to colonialism.(2)

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History and geography curricula in England have been found lacking by ‘forgetting’ and misrepresenting the British Empire, offering racialised and colonial framings of the world. At the same time the right, whilst celebrating a version of British history that denies imperial racism and terror, attempts to construct a racist backlash by feeding the media with disinformation about the past to legitimise contemporary structural racism.  

This SHARE event is an act of revealing. We aim to expose the myths and erasures of curricula and the offensive, reactionary ‘culture war’ narratives to demonstrate more truthful historical and geographical stories and to make demands of our education system. 

(1) Akbar, A. 2016. Interview: David Olusoga: ‘There’s a dark side to British history, and we saw a flash of it this summer’. The Guardian, 4 November.

(2) Anderson, N. (2021) Why Do We Need to Decolonise Geography? 10 Feb.

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