Teaching Slavery: a new book from Justice to History and leading historians, Katie Donington and Nick Draper.
This book will be available to download for free from the end of November 2025. Find it on UCL discovery:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215681
There is a special event to mark the publication, hosted by the Black British History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research:
Date: Thursday 11th December 2025 Time: 5.30-7.30 pm.
Venue: Room 349, Third Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
“This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the classroom.
Drawing on insights from a long-term partnership between historians and educators, ‘Teaching Slavery’ combines sophisticated historical analysis with practical pedagogical guidance. The early part of the book offers thorough historiographical examination of key themes, including race, the gendering of slavery, resistance and rethinking abolition. These are followed by detailed guidance on overcoming the challenges of teaching these histories, including exemplar enquiries to help teachers establish a classroom where teachers and students can confidently engage in dialogue about key ideas, including the construction of race and racism.”
Book a place at this event now, don’t miss it!
Use this link:
Enquiries on Padlet
Check out our new feature: Enquiries on PADLET
We are providing an all-encompassing package to access our historical enquiries with ease and efficiency
Step 1. head over to our historical enquiries page and pick a historical enquiry highlighted in bold that you are interested in
Step 2. Click the link on the enquiry
Step 3. Have a look through the enquiry via the Padlet link shown. On padlet you can see all the enquiry slides at once as in the picture below:
Step 4. You can download the enquiry via the dropbox link on the left of each lesson
Justice to History at S.H.P. Summer Conference 2025
We presented our ideas for a new enquiry on the history of Nigeria after independence to two terrific audiences at Leeds Trinity University at the start of July. We have planned our enquiry ethic, knowledge base and question and now we have to write the full enquiry lessons for April 2026.
Our audiences enjoyed the work of Fela Kuti and Burna Boy and heard about the literature of Chinua Achebe. We even had some dancing/ marching to Fela’s “Zombie”
Photographs courtesy of Alex Ford, Leeds Trinity University and SHP