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EXHIBITION IN A BOX

All Our Histories is an innovative Exhibition in a Box exploring Black history, Camberwell and Southwark, and the legacies of enslavement – through powerful artwork by Sokari Douglas Camp and local research. It tells a story from Africa’s rich ancestral life through to the present day, and recognises the bravery, dignity and strength of the people who endured enslavement and fought for freedom.

Created for Key Stage 3, the resource helps young people explore complex histories in creative and meaningful ways.

Discover how the past shapes our communities today.

How to use this online resource

This online resource pulls together everything from the physical Exhibition in a Boxas well as a supplemental Teachers’ Booklet [link to booklet pdf], films and audio. The physical boxes are being distributed to SSLP schools in October 2025. We recommend that all teachers read through the Teachers’ Booklet first [link to booklet] as it contains useful background information and details on how to use the resource in the classroom.

Downloads

These resources are free to download and use in the classroom and the community. You can either download the entire resource as one zip file, or individual elements, as explained below.

The list of all the resources included in the full download are as follows:

• Introduction
• Six Activity Cards
• Seven posters of Sokari Douglas Camp’s All the World is Now Richer sculpture
• Key Terms
• Key People
• Timeline in landscape and portrait orientation
• Extracts 1–5
• Map of the parish of Camberwell (1746)
• Teachers’ Booklet

Download the teachers’ booklet

Download the full Exhibition in a Box with the teachers’ booklet (pdf, 7MB) 

Download the teacher's booklet (pdf, 388KB)

Download high-res versions to print

Download the map of the parish of Camberwell (1746) (pdf, 6MB)

Download the six activity cards (pdf, 5MB)

Download the seven posters of Sokari Douglas Camp’s All the World is Now Richer sculpture (pdf, 320KB) 

Additional teacher-made resources
Coming soon.

About

This project began with two powerful stories in the Camberwell Quarterly (CQ), the magazine of the Camberwell Society. One explored the local legacies of enslavement, the other told the story of Sokari Douglas Camp’s striking sculpture All the World is Now Richer.

Readers responded. Conversations started. A campaign took shape – to bring the sculpture to Camberwell and to explore these histories in schools.

That’s when the CQ reached out to the Southwark Schools Learning Partnership. SSLP saw the potential straight away. Together, we created this resource to help Key Stage 3 students engage with a complex part of history through the lens of their own community.

Credits

Written and researched by Jenneba Sie-Jalloh

Senior Researcher: S. I. Martin

Additional research and writing: S. I. Martin, Marion Wallace

Edited by Marion Wallace, Nathalie Whittington

Design: Lucy Baragwanath

Project team: Kim Blackwell, Nick Mair, Marie Staunton C.B.E., Dr Marion Wallace, Nathalie Whittington

Project coordinator: Jasia Warren

We’re hugely grateful to Sokari Douglas Camp C.B.E. for kindly allowing us to make her artwork the heart of this project.

All Our Histories is made possible with the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to turn local research into something bigger – something young people can explore, question and make their own.

For over 50 years, the Camberwell Society has worked to protect local heritage, improve our neighbourhood and care for the community. They are proud to help tell all our histories.

This project was shaped by the insight, experience and expertise of partners:

• Southwark Schools Learning Partnership (SSLP): a network of 18 state and independent schools across Southwark, working together to raise ambition and share learning. https://sslp.education
• TheKrios.com: a heritage organisation dedicated to sharing the history of the Krio people of Sierra Leone. www.thekrios.com
• Southwark Black Parents Forum: a community-led group supporting and amplifying the voices of Black families across Southwark. https://southwarkblackparentsforum.org
• Theatre Peckham: a pioneering community theatre providing performance training and creative opportunities for young people. www.theatrepeckham.co.uk

To contact the project, please email allourhistories@gmail.com