Award-winning UK teacher aims to show adults their historical blind spots

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Adults need to revisit their history lessons to learn where their “blind spots” are after schools failed to thoroughly teach them about colonialism and empire, according to a leading history teacher. This is the aim of a new book, The History Lessons, by the award-winning teacher Shalina Patel, which spotlights the historical figures and stories left out of the textbooks – in particular those of women and people of colour – to challenge entrenched narratives. “It’s good history to shed light on as many stories as you can, especially those which have been forgotten and to question why; why is...