However, the site owners point out that it is not possible to verify the accuracy of the stories and that some material may be unsuitable for children.

The site also provides access to a blog for online discussion about teaching multicultural history in Britain.Ī great many stories have been presented here, submitted by users of the website. There is also a set of articles covering various aspects, such as teaching black and Asian history in schools. The resources include timelines, worksheets, planning grids, information sheets, images, lesson plans and more. Provides resources on the black presence in Tudor times, the slave trade and black issues in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. You make things up to be what you want them to be.' A powerful introduction to the trope of the unreliable narrator, this is a compelling and, at times, shocking read. As his sister finally tells him, 'the way you make things look is not the way they really are. Into his proud depiction of recently acquired social standing we read the history of a misfit, and, if we choose, we see in his self-satisfied account of the bachelor-pad home life he shares with his 'quasi-alcoholic' widowed father, a portrayal of stunted emotional growth and self-absorbed immaturity.

The first person narrative circles evasively around the allegation as he tells of perceived past injustices, but Keir's sense of justice and fairness are, we come to realise as we read his unsettling account, wholly subjective. His story, though, turns out to be one long excuse for his own inexcusable behaviour, the (alleged) rape of a school friend on their high school graduation night. Keir has a long list of things he finds inexcusable and another of things he hates.

Inexcusable by Chris Lynch