Creating Tangible Connections
' The trip was a great addition, partly because it made the project feel more special to students but also because it allowed them to place their research into a more concrete context by adding objects and images to what they were thinking about.'
Image: John Collet, May Morning c1760
Building Confidence
'The content they have studied and discussed has been brilliant, using knowledge they already had from the school curriculum to place their new ideas and knowledge clearly, and adding some much needed breadth and depth.'
Image: St James' Park c1745 British School, Royal Collection
Bringing Local History to Life
'The local element is excellent, it makes everything more concrete and more engaging.'
'I enjoyed collecting data...about Sarah, and extracting information from the will...improving my research skills by using different sources from across the web and cross referencing them to build a bigger picture.'
Image: Zoffany, Colonel Blair & Family with Ayah
Sharing Knowledge via Wikipedia
' I enjoyed writing the paragraph and putting it into Wikipedia because it felt like our work amounted to something.'
Simon P. Newman
Miranda Kauffman
Miranda Kauffman
'Slavery was as real and present in London as it was in the colonies. So, too, was resistance by the enslaved'
Professor Simon P Newman is Sir Denis Brogan Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of Glasgow and author of ‘Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London’ published in 2022.
Miranda Kauffman
Miranda Kauffman
Miranda Kauffman
'Because the best stories are true stories'
Currently working on her second book 'Heiresses: The Caribbean Marriage Trade'
Miranda Kauffman is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Her first book, Black Tudors: The Untold Story, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in 2018.
Richard Nevell
Photo credit: Disruptive Media Learning Lab
Programme Coordinator WIKIMEDIA UK
'The information skills taught through this activity will be useful to pupils throughout secondary and higher education and I am delighted that there are schools and individuals who have developed the Sankofa London Schools Project to address such an important topic area. This is the kind of project I would very much like to see taken up by schools and local authorities. ’
Fulham Palace
Thanks to a new collaboration, participants in the Sankofa London Schools Project are now invited to explore an exhibition and trail looking at physical and spiritual acts of RESISTANCE @Fulham Palace