Year 8 Passionate Historians

Scholarship and Fiction

Empires
  • Colston Whitehead, The Underground Railroad – 2018
  • Mirelle Harper, Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies – 2020
  • David Olusoga, Black & British, a short essential history – 2020
  • David Olusoga, The Black History Book – 2021
  • Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland – 2021
  • Andrea Stuart, Sugar in the Blood: A family’s story of slavery and empire – 2012
  • Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads – 2021
Industrial Revolution
  • William Rosen, The Most Powerful Idea in the World – 2010
  • Emma Griffin, Liberty’s Dawn: A people’s history of the Industrial Revolution – 2013
  • Roger Osborne, Iron, Steam & Money: The Making of the Industrial Revolution – 2013
  • Peter Hepplewhite, Industrial Revolution – 2015
  • Anita Gane, Life during the Industrial Revolution, a child’s history of Britain – 2015
Power & Protest
  • Fern Riddell, Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion: Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette – 2018
  • Diane Atkinson, Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes – 2018
  • Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels – 2001 (FICTION)
  • Juliet Kerrigan, Match Girls – 2013
  • Jacqueline Riding, Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre – 2019
  • Bobbie Kalman, 19th Century Girls and Women – 1997

TV & Film

Podcasts