International Slavery Museum

Curriculum topics available: National regional religious and ethnic identities.

Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery KS3 - Students will learn about the precious liberties enjoyed by the citizens of the United Kingdom and the ways in which citizens can work together to improve their communities.

Understanding Transatlantic Slavery KS3 - Students will learn about the precious liberties enjoyed by the citizens of the United Kingdom and the ways in which citizens can work together to improve their communities.

Tour of the International Slavery Museum KS3 - Students will learn about the precious liberties enjoyed by the citizens of the United Kingdom and the ways in which citizens can work together to improve their communities.

Curriculum topics available: Anti-bullying, Right and Wrong, Relationships and sex education.

Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery KS2 -
Core Theme 2, Relationships. - Students will learn about managing hurtful behaviour and bullying, as well as discrimination and how to challenge it. They will also learn about the important of respect for self and others.
Core Theme 3, Living in the Wider World - Students learn about diversity, stereotypes and prejudice.

Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery KS3 -
Core Theme 2, Relationships. - Students will learn about managing hurtful behaviour and bullying, as well as discrimination and how to challenge it. They will also learn about the important of respect for self and others.
Core Theme 3, Living in the Wider World - Students learn about diversity, stereotypes and prejudice.

Curriculum topics available: Black History.

Tour of the International Slavery Museum KS2 - Students will explore economic activity including trade links and the distribution of resources.

Curriculum topics available: Windrush, Slavery, Segregation.

Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery KS2 - Students will gain coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world, and understand the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups. They will also learn about identity and the challenges of their time, and gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts.

Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery KS3 - Students will learn about how people’s lives have been shaped by Britain, and how the nation has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. They will also learn about Britain’s involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, including its effects and its eventual abolition.

Understanding Transatlantic Slavery KS3 - Students will learn about how people’s lives have been shaped by Britain, and how the nation has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. They will also learn about Britain’s involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, including its effects and its eventual abolition.
OCR History A - Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-1730 Depth Study
- The involvement of the British population in the transatlantic slave trade including:
the development of ‘slave ports’ – Bristol, Liverpool, London;
growth of ideas of a racial hierarchy and impact of these ideas on settled minority communities;
opposition to slavery and the slave trade.
AQA History - Paper 2: Shaping the Nation
- Britain: Power and the people: 1170 to the present day
Protest and change: campaigning groups and their methods and impact, including the Anti-Slavery movement.
- Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day
Sugar and the Caribbean: piracy and plunder; the development of the slave trade, the economic and social impact of the slave trade on Britain.

Tour of the International Slavery Museum KS2 - Students are encouraged to ask perceptive questions and think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments and develop judgements. The session will help to increase knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world, as well the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time. They will better understand the connections between local, regional, national and international history, as well as between political, economic and social history.

Tour of the International Slavery Museum KS3 - Students will learn about how people’s lives have been shaped by Britain, and how the nation has influenced and been influenced by the wider world. They will also learn about Britain’s involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, including its effects and its eventual abolition.

Tour of the International Slavery Museum KS4 -
History OCR History A
Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-1730 Depth Study
- The involvement of the British population in the slave trade including: the development of ‘slave ports’ – Bristol, Liverpool, London – growth of ideas of a racial hierarchy and impact of these ideas on settled minority communities; opposition to slavery and the slave trade.
AQA History - Paper 2: Shaping the Nation
- Britain: Power and the people: 1170 to the present day
Equality and rights
Minority rights: the development of multi-racial society since the Second World War; discrimination, protest and reform; the Brixton Riots, their impact, including the Scarman Report.
Protest and change: campaigning groups and their methods and impact, including the Anti-Slavery movement
- Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day
Looking west - Sugar and the Caribbean: piracy and plunder; the development of the slave trade, including John Hawkins; settlements in Barbados and West Indies; the economic and social impact of the slave trade on Britain.
Colonisation in North America: causes and consequences of British colonisation; Raleigh; Jamestown; contact and relations with indigenous peoples; commodities; Pilgrim Fathers; indentured servants; the War of Independence, loss of American colonies.
- Expansion and empire
Expansion in Africa: causes and impact of British involvement; trade and missionary activity; South Africa; Egypt; the Scramble for Africa; Cecil Rhodes; the Boer War (1899–1902); imperial propaganda.
- Britain in the 20th century
The legacy of Empire: ‘Windrush’ and the Caribbean migrants; the work of Claudia Jones in the UK; migration from Asia and Africa, including the role of Amin in Uganda; the Commonwealth; the Falklands War.
- Understanding the modern world
Conflict across America
The background to the American Civil War: differences between North and South, issues of slavery, westward expansion and free states abolitionism; breakdown of the Missouri Compromise, John Brown, the roles of Lincoln and Jefferson Davis; the social and economic impact of the American Civil War on civilian populations.
American people and the 'Boom'
Divided society: organised crime, prohibition and their impact on society; the causes of racial tension, the experiences of immigrants and the impact of immigration; the Ku Klux Klan; the Red Scare and the significance of the Sacco and Vanzetti case
Post-war America
Racial tension and developments in the Civil Rights campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s: Segregation laws; Martin Luther King and peaceful protests; Malcolm X and the Black Power Movement; Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968.
OCR History A Explaining the Modern World
- The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688–c.1730
the economic, social and political impact in Britain of imperial expansion.
the impact on the British Isles of English expansion.
the significance of English and British expansion in this period.
- Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration (1)
buildings including visible evidence of changing use and building styles
names and signs including street names, shop fronts and signage
on-site information about a key event
related contemporary documents linked to the site including contemporary maps and plans
related oral histories either in archives or collected by learners • local history collection
- Migration to Britain c1000 to c2010
Reasons for immigration – differing political, economic, social and religious reasons.
The experience and actions of immigrants – positive actions and experiences such as community cohesion and contribution, and negative experiences and resistance to discrimination.
Responses to immigration – including responses from government and established communities.
Impact of immigration – including social, cultural, economic, religious and political impacts.
The impact of immigration on Britain’s relationship with the wider world.
(from c1500) Ideas of national ‘identity’ – how we have differently defined ‘Englishness’ and ‘Britishness’ over time
AS/ A level History AQA
- Industrialisation and the people: Britain, c1783–1885
Pressures for change: the anti-slavery movement
- The British Empire, c1857–1967
The development of Imperialism, c1857–c1890
The expansion of the British Empire in Africa; the Suez Canal and Egypt
Imperial and colonial policy; colonial policy and the scramble for Africa; informal empire
- Imperial consolidation and Liberal rule, c1890–1914
The consolidation and expansion of the British Empire in Africa
Imperialism: supporters and critics; National Efficiency; the British Empire and popular culture; representations of empire
Imperialism challenged, 1914–1947
Imperialist ideals; popular culture; representations of empire
Relations with indigenous peoples; protest and conflict; colonial identity; the development of nationalist movements
- The winds of change, 1947–1967
Decolonisation in Africa
British colonial policy and administration; the Commonwealth
Trade and commerce; post-war reconstruction
The role and influence on attitudes to empire of: nationalist leaders, colonial administration
Post-colonial political, economic and cultural ties; migration; the residual impact of empire; popular culture
Relations with indigenous peoples; challenges to colonial rule in Africa and Asia
- Challenge and transformation: Britain, c1851–1964
- Transformation and change, 1939–1964
Social changes and divisions: austerity and the impact of war; immigration and racial tensions
Developments in social policy: the growth of the Welfare State, including the NHS; the growth of education.

Crossing the Atlantic: Stories and Craft KS2 -Students are encouraged to ask perceptive questions and think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments and develop judgements. The session will help to increase knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world, as well the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time. They will better understand the connections between local, regional, national and international history, as well as between political, economic and social history. They will study an aspect of history dating from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the locality.