1. How is the British Empire Remembered?
Use Empire in Colour Programme One 19:50 – 22:50 for Empire Day celebrations to illustrate how Empire has been remembered through the years.
LO: To create an assessment on the legacy of empire
Legacy = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

2. What have people said about the Empire?
Most of your should be able to tell me one good or bad thing someone has said about Empire and why.
Positive about Negative about
Empire Empire
We will be investigating whether we agree that the British Empire was a good thing or not. To carry out a good investigation, what is it we need to find out?
1. Where exactly was the Empire?
2. Why did Britain become Empire builders?
3. What did the people who lived in the Empire think of it?
4. How do people remember empire now?

3. What motivated the rulers to build an empire?
Can you remember? Why did they go to America, Australia, South Africa and India?
What happened to the rulers
and the ruled? Was it all good?

4. Why did Britain get an Empire?
Your job in this task is to see what evidence supports the different views of the experts about why Britain became a great empire.
Trade – making money for British companies
Politics – stopping other European powers developing their empires and becoming too powerful
Religion – trying to spread the Christian faith
Ambition – hoping to get rich easily or get a good job in the government of the empire
Adventure – wanting to learn about new lands and peoples
Land – hoping to settle down and start a new life in a new land.
Accident – they didn’t mean to!

5. The British Empire
How was the British Empire remembered?

6. Positive Empire?
The Empire brought with it its legal system which is still used in some countries today.
The British stopped many cruel practises in other countries, such as infanticide in China and the Hindu tradition of Sati in India where the widow was burnt alive with her dead husband.
Architecture and magnificent buildings.
Made Britain very wealthy and powerful.
The spread of new ideas and new knowledge.
The creation of Railway networks in many countries.
Some schools, universities and education.
Medical ideas and some hospitals.

7. Negative Empire? The Slave trade.
The defeat of the British in Afghanistan in 1842.
The Amritsar Massacre in 1919.
The Concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War.
War and destruction.
The destruction of some Native American Indian Tribes.
The Opium Wars in China and forcing the Chinese to become addicted to Opium drugs and then selling it to them.
In 1770 the East India Company caused a famine in Bengal, East India by raising the tax on grain. Up to 10 million Indians starved to death.

8. How is the British Empire Remembered?
For better or worse -the world we know today is a product of Britain's empire. The question is not whether British Empire was all bad. The question is whether there could have been a less bloody path to it?
Niall Ferguson
The British Empire was often a force for good..         - Mary Kenny
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the cruelty of imperialism. Nelson Mandela
Without the EMPIRE we should be a weak nation pushed around. Empire is our sword and our shield.
William Morris Hughes 
I get angry when I hear that word "empire"; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my ancestors were raped and my forefathers brutalised.
Benjamin Zephaniah OBE - no way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen. I am profoundly anti-empire.
“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have therefore won first prize in the lottery of life”
Cecil Rhodes

9. What have people said about the Empire?
Turn your book on it’s side and split your page in half
Positive things about the Empire
Negative things about the Empire

10. What have people said about the Empire?
Turn your book on it’s side and split your page in half
Positive things about the Empire
Negative things about the Empire
“Remember that you are an Englishman, and have therefore won first prize in the lottery of life”
Cecil Rhodes
For better or worse -the world we know today is a product of Britain's empire. The question is not whether British Empire was all bad. The question is whether there could have been a less bloody path to it?
Niall Ferguson
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the cruelty of imperialism. Nelson Mandela
The British Empire was often a force for good..         - Mary Kenny
Without the EMPIRE we should be a weak nation pushed around. Empire is our sword and our shield.
William Morris Hughes 
I get angry when I hear that word "empire"; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my ancestors were raped and my forefathers brutalised.
Benjamin Zephaniah OBE - no way Mr Blair, no way Mrs Queen. I am profoundly anti-empire.

11. Design a plate about the British Empire from your perspective:
Draw symbols to represent the reasons why Britain built an Empire
ASSESSMENT!!
what Britain did
This shows Britannia crying because some people felt ashamed of the Empire

12. What you need to do…
Draw symbols on the A3 paper which give your interpretations of the British empire.
Write a description about each of the pictures explaining what the represent.(Don’t forget to quote Historians)
Write an answer to the question in your books: How should we remember the British Empire?

13. Level 4
“A bag of gold shows that the British took over Australia because they wanted to become rich”.
“I have drawn a gun to represent the Day of Shame at Amritsar, this was where innocent Indians were killed by the British which was very harsh.”

14. Level 4a-5c
“I have drawn what Benjamin Zephiniah might have drawn on his plate, for example I’ve drawn handcuffs to represent slavery because the British were responsible for taking slaves from the Gold Coast of Africa and selling them to Americans to grow cotton.”

15. Level 6b
“Niall Ferguson suggests that the Empire wasn’t all bad, but that the policy of Imperialism was bloody. This can be seen in examples such as the treatment of the Indians by the East India Company, or how the British did provide opportunities for people to make a better life in Australia. Clearly Ferguson wants to focus on several aspects of Empire.”

16. How to explain your interpretation
Intro – briefly explain how you think the British empire is remembered
Eg: I believe that the British Empire has been remembered in a negative/positive way because…
Main Body – use your knowledge and historian quotes to back up your opinion.
Eg: The reason that the British Empire is remembered as being negative is because of the horrors of the slave trade this is supported by Benjamin Zephaniah when he said…
Conclusion – Sum up your view
Eg: In conclusion I believe the British Empire is remembered… because…

17. How is the British Empire Remembered?
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