Black History Month
Resource type: Event
Price band: £
Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5
Region(s): All of UK
October is Black History Month and an opportunity to shine a light on black history, heritage and culture. The theme for Black History Month 2026 is Honouring Our Communities.
The Black History Month website hosts a range of resources that could be useful for schools. These include:
- A Black History Month Resource Pack for primary and secondary schools that includes educational materials, themed guidance, profiles of significant figures and campaign resources designed to support meaningful engagement throughout October.
- Classroom audio resources designed to support Black History Month across KS3 and 4. The resources include audio biographies of key figures through history with discussion prompts to encourage deeper understanding and reflection.
- A Features section with articles covering a range of topics such as Science and Medicine, Black History Month Heroes, Great Black Britons and more.
- An Events Listing with geographical filters.
- A Black History Month UK Magazine.
Cost: The website is free to access. The Resource Pack is £84.45 + postage.
About Black History Month UK: Black History Month began in the US but was launched in London in 1987 with the aim of challenging racism and educating people about aspects of British history that were not taught in schools.
Further resources:
- The National Trust has produced booklists and accompanying teaching notes that celebrate Black literary history for KS1-3 pupils. The resources highlight favourite Black authors, illustrators and characters from children’s books. Available to download with their free membership.
- Check out the Black History and Black British History recommended booklists from primary experts Books for Topics.
- Find more book recommendations for all ages from BookTrust, BookTrust Scotland, and LoveReadingforKids.
- Ensure your school library is inclusive and representative by exploring the (incomplete) Lit in Colour booklists, featuring books by writers of colour for all ages.
- Inclusive Books for Children is a website dedicated to helping teachers and parents find high-quality, inclusive books for primary-aged children.
- Explore the range of Black History Month resources from Topical Talk. Created by experts to help you open important conversations and encourage critical thinking and communication skills with pupils aged 10+, the resources are free to download with registration.
- Stories told on film can be an effective way of broaching the topic of racism with young people and also of celebrating the many positive achievements of Black people throughout history. Explore Into Film’s Black Lives Matter collection of films and resources. Access is free for all state-funded UK schools with an Into Film account.
- BBC Teach has a range of resources to support Black History Month.
- Our Black History Heroes is a collection of short films that celebrate the lives of 22 history-making figures from the past 200 years, chosen and narrated by children.
- Publisher Usborne has a number of Quicklinks to websites with useful content and activities to help you celebrate Black History Month.
- Visit the Reflecting Realities section of the website for more resources to support an inclusive and representative literacy curriculum.
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