This blogpost shares with OBHD readers a short article published in Public History Weekly on 8 June 2023 by Rhonwen Bruce-Roberts. Our students in our history lessons are living in the UK. Rhonwen suggests that ‘anglocentrism poses a risk of denying separate histories and separate identities that are a part of its story’. She challenges us to ‘tease out forgotten narratives through ‘multiperspectival history’’.

Abstract: Welsh history continues to be seldom taught in schools due to a variety of issues, including geography, limited subject expertise, a dearth of textbooks, and the absence of a coherent, linear historical narrative free from the influence of identity in Wales. As a result, Welsh history is frequently taught in Wales from a British or English perspective, and it is unequivocally not as prevalent in England.

Here is the link to the article: https://public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-5/welsh-history-schools/

In 2020, Holly Hiscox designed an enquiry as part of the HA mini Fellowship on Medieval Peceptions of Conquest. Holly went beyond an English perspective in her work on the Norman Conquest and you can find it here.

For support to extend your own subject knowledge of other British histories you could explore these HA podcasts from academic historians.