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I did my secondary education in the 90s. We did study the international slave trade. My history teacher was the best teacher I ever had though. Perhaps our curriculum was the exception, not the rule.
miro_o-
My secondary education was also in the 90s and I did History through to GCSE (you had a choice of History or Geography) and the stuff re: the slave trade, empire, etc was pretty minimal, abit of reference to triangular trade but that was mainly it.
My history teacher was very much a stick to the syllabus, stick to the textbooks teacher which may partly explain it.
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I did my secondary education in the 90s. We did study the international slave trade.
My secondary education did not include this (late 90s), and when I did A-level history, despite the sylabus covering a lot of rights issues, it focused on native americans, UK labour movements, suffragettes, and Afrcan American civil rights post WW2...understandably one cannot teach it all!
aggi
SCS
It seems kind of odd to me that despite a large part of British identity being based recent(ish) imperial dominance, barely any of that is covered in historical education, either in schools or mainstream historical media. It's just too awkward, and the avoidance of this part of our history has built up a resistance to the reflection that in international relations, with the exception of one World War, WE have been the baddies.