Where is
she from?
Queen Victoria
becomes queen
What is more important;
the lead up to the
history moment or
the repercussions?
Chris Offili
No Woman, No Cry,
1998
Acrylic, oil,
polyester resin,
pencil, paper collage,
glitter, map pins and
elephant dung on linen
243.8 x 182.8 cm
(95 15/16 x 71 15/16 ins)
Courtesy Victoria Miro
Gallery, London
© Chris Ofili
World War 2
Alan Davie
Entrance to a Paradise
1949 © Tate
Are these
children
evacuees?
Is the idea of British
history still relevant?
Whose voices don’t we
hear through history and
what does that tell us?
Donald Rodney
In the House of My Father
1996-7 © Tate
Paul Nash
Totes Meers (Dead Sea)
1940- 1 © Tate
Mark Wallinger
Threshold to the Kingdom
2000 © Tate
John Bettes
Man in a black cap
1545 © Tate
Sir Jacob Epstein
Torso in Metal from
'The Rock Drill'
1913-14
© The estate of
Sir Jacob Epstein
Not always important
When one thing
finishes does
something else begin?
Margaret Thatcher
Waving Finger
© Reuters/CORBIS
Whose voices can we
hear through history
and what are they
telling us?
Votes for women
Jeremy Deller
The History of the World
1998 © Tate
British School 16th Century
Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly
Helena Snakenborg, Later
Marchioness of Northampton
1569 © Tate
1509
Henry VIII becomes king
Are we still
living in
Victorian Britain?
Science
fiction
Do we learn
anything
from history?
Learning
Why do children
work in factories?
The Empire Windrush
sails from the
Caribbean to Tilbury
© Hulton-Deutsch
Collection/CORBIS
1547
Henry VIII death
Queen Victoria
1563
Sir Francis Drake sets
sail for the West Indies
What is history?
Henry VIII
death
Evelyn Dunbar
A Land Girl and Bail Bull
1945 © Tate
Pauline Boty
The Only Blonde in the World
1963 © Tate
Is history always
about important
things?
1908 Olympics London
The Great Fire of London
in the Year 1666 Print
© Michael Nicholson/Corbis
Did the Olympics
only take place
in London?
1665
1642
Outbreak of the plague in London
English Civil War begins
1666
1688-1689
1649 - 1660
Great Fire of London
The Glorious Revolution,
The Commonwealth of England,
England becomes a
England becomes a republic.
constitutional monarchy
This ends with the Restoration
of Charles II in 1660
King Henry VIII
by Hans Holbein the Younger
© Corbis
Is history
always about
important things?
Why did women
have no justice?
Attributed to
Nicholas Hilliard
Queen Elizabeth I
about 1547-1619
© Tate
Launch of National
Health Service
Sir Hubert Von Herkomer
Sir Henry Tate
1897 © Tate
Henry VIII
Henry VIII’s
meanness to women
Who makes
history?
Industrial Revolution
© The British Library
Board. 1044.g.23,
opposite 211
Rich people
could become
poor – selling
1998
Welsh and Scottish
devolution passed
2007
Devolution in
Northern Ireland
2008
Credit crunch
2012
London Olympics
Emily Osborn
Nameless and Friendless.
"The rich man's wealth is
his strong city, etc." Proverbs, x, 15 1857 © Tate
Is this man a
Housing Officer?
First hot
air balloon
Votes for women
© The British Library Board.
Colindale, front page no.776
Match Girls,
Photographer/Artist:
Hulton Archive
© Getty Images
Barbara Hepworth
Pelagos
1946 © Tate
British School 17th Century
The Cholmondeley Ladies
about 1600-10 © Tate
Abolition
of Slavery
1948 Olympics London
Henry VIII
becomes king
William Coldstream
Havildar Ajmer Singh
1943 © Tate
1815
What happened when
Wellington defeated
When was colour
this painting was made?
Napoleon’s army at
photography developed?
the Battle of Waterloo
1805
Henry Tate giving his
Are these two people from
The Match
1911
Nelson defeated Napoleon’s
collection to the nation
Girl Strike
Construction
their imagination or was
The Parliament limits
navy at the Battle of Trafalgar
1936
1984-1985
it something real?
1837
1755
1870
the powers of the
1784
1957
The Jarrow Crusade
1801
Miners’ Strike
Queen Victoria becomes queen
Publication of Samuel Johnsons
Forster’s Education Act which led
House of Lords
First hot air
Ghanaian independence
1981 - 2000
Ireland joins England, Scotland
1948
“Dictionary of the English Language”
1830s
to free state education for children
balloon in England
Greenham Common
and Wales to form the United Kingdom
The Empire Windrush sails
1922
1973
Invention of printed photography
under ten years of age in 1880
1787
Women’s Peace Camp
1750
Creation of the
from the Caribbean to Tilbury
Britain joins European
1908
1888
1859
1834
First convicts transported
Industrial revolution begins
Irish Free State
1947
Economic Community
London Olympics
The Bryant and May
Charles Darwin’s
Slavery abolished in
to Australia
1926
Indian independence
match girl strike
‘On the Origin of Species’
the British Empire
1948
The General Strike
1979
1918
Where does history
1897
is published
Launch of National
Margaret Thatcher
Votes for most women
When was the
Begin and end? Does
Votes for women
Tate Gallery opens
Health Service
becomes prime minister
over the age of 30
British Empire
It begin and end?
1939-1945 1947-1991
1914 - 1918
established?
World
World War 1
Cold War
When did they
Females didn’t have
War 2
1948
Sir Francis Drake
come to Britain?
History begins and
any power. Men were in
London Olympics
Is history still
sets sail for the
ends with females
charge of everything
being made?
West Indies
Whose history
Greenham Common
Women’s Peace Camp
is told?
The Match
Girl Strike
Dissolution of the
monasteries/reformation
John Martin
The Coronation of
Queen Victoria
1839 © Tate
Invention of
printed photography
John Simpson
Head of a Man (?Ira Frederick Aldridge)
exhibited 1827 © Tate
Whose voices don’t
we hear and what
does that tell us?
What is a fact?
William Maw Egley
Omnibus Life in London
1859 © Tate
The Grand Air Balloon
© The British Library Board.
L.R.301.h.3, 146
Why were ladies not
allowed to the Olympics?
Industrial revolution
Richard Hamilton
The Citizen
1981-3 © Tate
1707
Act of Union
Credit crunch
Stephen Willats
Living with Practical Realities
1978 © Tate
Sonia Boyce
Missionary Position II
1985 © Tate
Votes for women
© The British
Library Board.
Colindale,
front page no.776
London Olympics
2012 logo
In ten years time is it
going to be a better piece
of art in the gallery?
What is history?
Is history in black
and white or colour?
John Linnell
Reapers, Noonday Rest
1865 © Tate
Francis Hayman
Samuel Richardson, the Novelist
(1684-1761), Seated, Surrounded
by his Second Family
1740-1 © Tate
100 Days To Go To
The Opening Of The
London 2012 Olympics
2012 © Getty Images
Great fire of London
How did
Henry VIII
die?
Augustus Leopold Egg
Past and Present, No. 1
1858 © Tate
1605
Gunpowder plot
1603
King James VI of Scotland
becomes King James I of England
The Queen, 1892.
A photographic portrait of
Queen Victoria (1819-1901),
taken by W & D Downey.
© Getty Images
Wooden city
becomes stone
built city
Is your skin armour?
Businessman Sitting at
Desk with Head in Hands
© Matthias Tunger/Corbis
Gilbert & George
Red Morning Trouble
1977 © Tate
Tate Gallery opens
William Hogarth
Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants
about 1750-5 © Tate
World War 1
The Empire Windrush
sails from the
Caribbean to Tilbury
No money
for artwork
Are ideas of class
still relevant?
Margaret Thatcher
becomes Prime Minister
Philip King
Tra-La-La
1963 © Tate
Ghanaian
independence
Who is Tate Britain for?
Freedom
Indian
independence
What is it for?
Who is it for?
School
Where does history
begin and end? Does
it begin and end?
William Dobson
Endymion Porter
about 1642-5
Votes for women
Inventions and flights
The General Strike
Colin Self
Leopardskin Nuclear Bomber No. 2
1963 © Colin Self.
All rights reserved,
DACS 2013
Cold War
English Civil War
begins
Tacita Dean
Majesty
2006
© Courtesy of the artist
and Frith Street Gallery,
London and Marian Goodman
Gallery, New York and Paris
Bob and Roberta Smith
Make Art Not War
1997 © Tate
Women couldn’t
fight in the war
How did
Henry VIII die?
Does language
ever stop
being made?
Is history
important?
Why?
Invention of
the dictionary
Publication of
Samuel Johnsons
“Dictionary of the
English Language”
Eva Rothschild
Legend
2009 © Tate
Anya Gallaccio
preserve 'beauty'
1991-2003 © Tate
Guy Fawkes
Was the
diary invented
in 1992?
Guy Fawkes and the
Gunpowder Plotters
© Bettmann/CORBIS
Publication of Samuel Johnson's
'Dictionary of the English Language'
© The British Library Board.
680.k.12, title page
For remembrance day
– poppies
Did Guy Fawkes
fail or succeed?