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Interpreting the British Empire: how has it been commemorated and contested?

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  • Empire, persecution and resistance

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In this unit, pupils learn about how the British Empire was viewed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They analyse how imperial anxiety, decline, and decolonisation have all led to changes in its historiography.

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of the mid--nineteenth century British Empire that they developed in the previous unit. It also builds on knowledge of the earlier British Empire that pupils developed in units about Mughal India, the East India Company and the growth of the Empire in the 17th and 18th centuries. This unit prepares pupils for the later year 9 unit about 20th decolonisation in the British Empire in the 20th century.

  1. The Great Exhibition and the British Empire
  2. Imperial anxiety and celebration of Empire
  3. Imperial decline
  4. Decolonisation and contesting empire
  5. New imperial history
  6. Commemoration and contestation of the British Empire

  • Pupils know that empires had profound effects on both the colonisers and colonised peoples.
  • Pupils know that the legacy of the British Empire is contested.
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