The Secret Histories Project: SHP Special Edition: Why Do We Need Secret Histories?
it seems obvious to me that Mr Gove really didn’t understand, or didn’t care, what it means to have a figure like Seacole on the curriculum. When the vast bulk of the history that you study in school does feature people who look a lot like you and think a lot like you, I wonder whether it’s possible to understand the sheer desperate hunger that you can feel, that sense of indescribable glee when you finally sit down in a lecture or turn a page in a history book and see someone who reminds you of yourself.









