What did it mean to belong in Mill Road 1962–1988?
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history by Sarah Jackson-Buckley
This enquiry is aimed at Year 9 pupils, based on a single street (Mill Road) in the centre of Cambridge. The 9-lesson enquiry focuses on the changing identity of the street from 1962 to 1988 – the period that saw rapid migration to the city, gentrification and the loss of working-class identity. Students are exposed to a wide range of oral histories and testimonies from the local community and asked to analyse what belonging meant to the inhabitants of Mill Road, through a close reading of the testimonies, combined with students’ own understanding about belonging, interweaved with national and, crucially, local context.
This enquiry was written by Sarah Jackson-Buckley, Head of History and Literacy Co-ordinator: Curriculum Development at Sawston Village College, Cambridgeshire.
All resources available on the Historical Association website.
Contribute
Do you have any information about the people or places in this article? If so, then please
let us know using the Contact page or by
emailing capturingcambridge@
Licence
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
not including content on external links as indicated by
.