Put Britain’s colonial history on the curriculum – then we’ll know who we really are | Maya Goodfellow
Britain’s past weighs on our present: learning about it would mean a better debate about race and migration
by Maya Goodfellow
Dec 05, 2019
3 minutes
My mum came to the UK from India in 1973, after a chunk of time spent in Uganda, when she was only 13. Colonialism shaped her life, and that of my grandparents; growing up in Newcastle, it was the backdrop to mine too. I’d heard plenty about empire and anticolonial movements at home, but during 14 years in the UK’s state education system I learned almost nothing about it. Now, over a decade later, little has changed: suggests that there still isn’t
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