Activating Tolerant Futures in Primary Schools: interventions on ancient and contemporary identities

This grant is funded by a CAHSS Impact grant awarded by the University of Edinburgh. It will supercharge impact from the AHRC-funded projects Ancient Identities in Modern Britain (2016-19) and its Follow-on Co-producing Tolerant Futures through Ancient Identities (2022), during which the Chatterpast education resource was created. The team will use Chatterpast in two primary school classrooms (7-11 years) in Scotland and England to foster inclusive ideas of ‘others’ based on nuanced presentations of the Iron Age and Roman pasts. They will evaluate the changes in attitudes activated, improve Chatterpast and promote it amongst educators. These activities will also generate insights helpful to inform a future AHRC research grant.