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Seeing history teachers use #EmpireLand has been thrilling. Didn’t expect it to happen, let alone so quickly. Also amazing that @penguin is now donating 15,000 copies of #EmpireLand to British schools as part of its #litincolour project. 30 for each school sathnam.com/empire
My hope is not to give students a rigid way of seeing empire, but to show them how to talk about empire with nuance, to avoid the basic pitfalls, and to be introduced to a wealth of other history books, some of which I even disagree with. #Empireland
#litincolour aims to introduce students everywhere to writing by writers of colour. I was in final year of university before I read my first brown author, and in my 40s before I started thinking about empire. All too common failure in British education.
Books create belonging. They help us see each other, and understand one another. That's why every young person should have the chance to study books reflecting the racial diversity of UK society. This is how we want to contribute to that vision. #LitInColour (1/4)
We’re excited to join forces with @PenguinUKBooks to commission major new research, as well as the Black Writers’ Guild, @TeachFirst, @LiteracyTrust and partner schools. Change happens when we work together. We add our voices to a movement built over years, by many. (2/4) 
Over the next few years our #LitinColour programme will support brilliant teachers making change on the ground to develop an inclusive #EnglishLit #curriculum and increase student access to books by writers of colour. penguin.co.uk/litincolour (3/4)
