Phase 7 · Timelines
Interactive Black History timelines
Curated cross-topic timelines that pull events straight from lessons. Use them for starters, revision, or as classroom projections.
3000 BCE – 1600 CEKS2KS3
African Civilisations (Antiquity to 1600)
From Kemet and Kush on the Nile, through Aksum's Red Sea trade, to Ghana, Mali and Songhai in the Sahel — a long arc of African statehood, scholarship and commerce.
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1500 – 1900KS3KS4
Trade, Empire and Abolition (1500–1900)
The transatlantic slave trade, resistance and revolution in the Caribbean, and the long struggle for abolition in Britain and beyond.
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200 CE – presentKS2KS3KS4
Black Britain (Roman era to today)
African presence in Britain from Roman soldiers on Hadrian's Wall through Tudor courts, Victorian activists, Windrush and beyond.
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1900 – 2000KS3KS4KS5
20th-Century Civil Rights and Liberation
From decolonisation in Africa to civil rights movements in the US, UK and Caribbean.
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