Above all, studying Leicester provides brilliant opportunities to look at diversity. Ethnic groups make up the majority of the population in Leicester so it makes perfect sense to focus on the issue of immigration. Half the pupils in Leicester schools have English as their second language. Also most attention paid to the Tudor, Victorian and post-1945 periods which are not mandatory under the National Curriculum.
Possible lines of enquiry/key questions
1. What was it like growing up in Leicester 50/60 and 70 years ago
Select whichever decade best suits your school’s catchment: Caribbean Pakistani and Indian in Spinney Hill and Belgrave Rd, Ugandan Asians in 1970s, Kossovan and Somalis in 1990s)
2. How can we know what people’s experience was like in Leciester?
Newspapers, Radio Leicester, Oral history archive
