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What is really being taught to our children in history lessons?

20 May 2025

12:51 AM

20 May 2025

12:51 AM

History is an area of remarkable success in our schools thanks to recent education reforms. However, these impressive strides forward risk being undermined by a new wave of activism in classrooms.

This process of ‘decolonisation’ in history is not necessary

Following the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, 83 per cent of schools have made changes to ‘diversify’ or ‘decolonise’ their curriculums in recent years.

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