Pro-transgender teaching materials also claim that genital mutilation of slaves was a form of “gender transition”.
But landmark British victories such as those at Waterloo and Trafalgar go largely untaught – with research suggesting as few as one in ten schools include them on the curriculum.
A Policy Exchange investigation has warned that schools have “taken it too far” as they adapt history curriculums in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
The prestigious centre-Right unit found that George Floyd’s death in 2020 led to schools hastily including material about ethnic minorities to appear “anti-racist”.
Former history teacher and chairman of Campaign for Real Education Chris McGovern said it was ‘clear that the subject has been captured by the Left’.
The report added that some resources, such as the book Brilliant Black British History, push “contested narratives” – such as black people building Stonehenge.
The book is marketed as “a must-have in any school library” but its claim that early black Britons built the world-famous Neolithic stone circle is “hotly contested and outside mainstream historical thinking” yet “presented as fact”, according to the think-tank. …
One resource, from the Classical Association’s ‘Queering the Past’ project, claims the Roman Emperor Nero married a trans woman called Sporus but omits the fact that they probably underwent a forced castration rather than consensual gender reassignment. …
Separately, the think tank also gathered responses to Freedom of Information requests about the curriculum sent to 249 nationally-representative secondary schools.
The responses revealed the most popular curriculum topic taught to children aged 11 to 14 was the Transatlantic Slave Trade, taught in 99% of schools.
At the other end of the scale, the Battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar were taught in just 11% of schools, while for Agincourt it was 18%....<<<Read More>>>...
