Meanwhile, a campaign group pushing for the mandatory teaching of empire in schools called The Impact of Omission has been conducting an ongoing online survey and as of autumn 2020 has found that while 86 per cent of people were taught about the Tudors at school, and 72 per cent were taught about the Battle of Hastings and 73 per cent learned about the Great Fire of London, just 37 per cent were taught about transatlantic slavery, just 10 per cent were taught about the role of slavery in the British Industrial Revolution and just 8 per cent learned about the British colonization of Africa.
