What makes someone an Icon? A cunning plan to explore the relative significance of individuals involved in abolishing the slave trade.

We had several aims when we constructed this enquiry. Firstly, we wanted to develop our Year 9 pupils' understanding of the concept of historical significance, especially in terms of how this can change over time and in relation to national and local contexts. Secondly, we wanted to build an element of local history into an enquiry about a national (and international) issue to show our pupils that their town was (and is) connected to 'history'. Lastly it's 2007. We were rewriting our scheme of work and the abolition of the slave trade was just too good a ...

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