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More Curricular CIC
Our programmes
Heritage education walks, quests, creative workshops, exhibitions and talks across London. We explore Black British history, Caribbean heritage, Tudor history and women's history, making London's hidden past accessible to community groups, schools, families and organisations. All community programmes are free or grant-funded.
What we offer
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Walks & quests
Led by educators who know the archives
Our immersive experiences explore hidden stories and diverse historical perspectives across London. Every group gets a customised experience, a specific period, team-building activities or particular learning objectives.
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What participants gain
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Who we work with
Communities who may not have access to traditional learning
All groups must be London-based. If your group falls outside these categories but would benefit, email contact@morecurricular.co.uk.
Heritage education for communities too often left out
All walks and activities are funded by grants and designed to reach people who may not have access to traditional learning opportunities. Get in touch to bring one to your group.
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Our track record
Every project we deliver is rooted in primary sources, community partnership and dignity-centred storytelling. Here are some of the programmes we have delivered.
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“It reinforced my knowledge and respect for our presence in London in early times.”
- Heritage walk participant
Partner with us on a project
We work with councils, funders, livery companies, schools and community organisations across London.
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Community events
Heritage walks, quests, talks and exhibitions across London. Free and grant-funded, open to community groups, families and schools.
Who can come
Community groups, families and schools. No prior knowledge needed and no charge to attend.
How to book
Places are limited and released ahead of each event. Email us to be told when the next dates open.
Host an event
We can bring a walk, quest or talk to your organisation, library or community centre.
Hear about the next event first
Email us and we will let you know when new dates are released.
contact@morecurricular.co.ukCommissioned by Hackney Council · Completing March 2027
Hackney Black History Book Project
We are creating a book that honours the remarkable contributions of Black individuals throughout Hackney's history, from community leaders and activists to artists, educators and everyday heroes. Through careful research and community engagement, we are building a lasting record of the vital role Black people have played in making Hackney the vibrant borough it is today.
Contribute a story
Featured figures
Stories from the book
Just a few of the remarkable individuals whose stories will be included. Each represents a different aspect of Hackney's rich Black history.
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The vision
Reclaiming narratives, preserving legacies
History books have too often marginalised or erased the contributions of Black communities. By documenting these stories, we ensure that future generations understand the full richness of Hackney's past and can see themselves reflected in local history.
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Get involved
Do you have knowledge about notable Black figures in Hackney's history? Are you interested in contributing research, stories or expertise? We would love to hear from you.
Questions? Email bukunmi@morecurricular.co.uk
Thank you for your interest
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St Mary’s Church, Putney · October 2025
Written in the Records: Black presence in Putney’s past
For six days in October 2025, St Mary’s Church in Putney became a place where history spoke with a new voice. Primary school children created over 60 portraits of Black residents who lived in Putney 400 years ago, people documented in parish records but forgotten by history books.
The exhibition at a glance
17 livesrecorded between the 1620s and 1750s
60+ portraitsby pupils from three Wandsworth primaries
Shown in the Cromwell Room, named for the 1647 Putney Debates. All artwork has since been donated to Wandsworth Archive, and Wandsworth Council has commissioned an online exhibition. Funded by Wandsworth Council.
The discovery that started everything
Research into Wandsworth’s hidden Black history uncovered the records, and their significance was immediately apparent. The evidence had been sitting in St Mary’s parish registers for centuries. These were not isolated entries: families across generations, workers integrated into parish life, couples building lives together. The Russel family baptising their children. Robertt Catharick and Mary Ember marrying in 1687. Joan receiving payment for her skilled work washing and preparing corpses. The Cuffee family network spanning three decades, including George Cuffee, a Black youth buried in 1752.
How do you bring 400-year-old parish records to life in a way that restores dignity to people reduced to racial descriptors in administrative documents? The answer came through art.
Three schools, three approaches
Holy Ghost Catholic Primary School created 51 vibrant drawings that refuse to let historical figures remain invisible. Some pupils drawing George Cuffee used Stormzy as their inspiration: bold colours, direct gazes, historically accurate Stuart-era clothing combined with modern confidence. They recognised shared threads, a religious community, and the political reality of Black presence across four centuries, and made a visual argument that this confidence is not new, only reclaimed.
St Mary’s RC Primary, Battersea studied Stuart-era portrait conventions, allegorical objects, clothing, backgrounds that tell stories without words, and created six portraits. One shows Mary Russel with flowers for a precious but brief life; she died at 14. Another depicts Seppeo, a servant at Sir John Grosvenor’s household who died in 1735.
St Mary’s CE Primary, Putney contributed a silhouette piece exploring visibility and historical absence.
Community response
Local residents came, many surprised to learn of Black presence in Putney centuries earlier than they had assumed. Visitors described the exhibition as “uplifting and interesting”, “interesting and enlightening” and “an excellent and absorbing flavour”. The Black History Month service on Sunday 26 October, led by Reverend Sharon, remembered all members of the community across centuries.
With thanks
Reverend Sharon, Reverend Kieron Rowley and Reverend John Whittaker at St Mary’s Church; Issa Cissokho and the team at Putney Pantry; the headteachers, teachers and pupils of Holy Ghost Catholic Primary, St Mary’s CE Primary Battersea and St Mary’s CE Primary Putney; and Danielle, Sara and the team at Wandsworth Council, whose grant funding made the project possible as part of Wandsworth Borough of Culture.
Community exhibition · Carnival 60
In Full Colour: Notting Hill Carnival’s story
16–18 July 2026 · Thu–Sat · The Conservatory, Notting Hill
Primary school pupils painted from the 1966 newspaper archive, giving colour back to the faces, the costumes and the streets the camera could not show. Come for the artwork; stay for the tamarind balls and souvenir-making workshops happening the same weekend.
The third in a series of community exhibitions making hidden history visible, running across the opening weekend of Carnival 60.
Pictured
“Russ” by Mason, Year 5
In Full Colour brought Notting Hill’s Caribbean heritage to life through Carnival portraits created by Year 5 pupils from St Mary’s and Sacred Heart RC Primary Schools.
Gallery of all portraits to follow.
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Heritage exhibitions
Primary and secondary pupils respond to London’s hidden history through art, researched from parish registers, guild books and newspaper archives, and shown in the places where that history happened. Every exhibition is free.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
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What parents, students and educators say
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For universities
Heritage walks in London for HBCUs & liberal arts universities
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Why HBCUs and liberal arts universities choose us
More Curricular has worked with groups from Howard University, Lawrence University, North Carolina State University and Global Ambition Alliance for Learning Abroad. We combine the pleasure of seeing one of the world's great cities with the intellectual depth that faculty programmes demand.
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Our walks for HBCU & liberal arts groups
Choose a specialist walk, or ask us to design a bespoke day for your group.
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Moments from the walks
From Tudor Westminster to Notting Hill, students from HBCUs and liberal arts universities across America have walked London's history with us.
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Simple from first enquiry to walking day
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Every Child Achieving and Thriving
The 2026 Education White Paper in plain English
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For educators
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Bring the White Paper briefing to your staff
CPD that translates the policy into schemes of work, study skills provision and staff development plans, online and in person across the UK.
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Self-guided audio walk · More Curricular CIC
Emancipation Day Walk
Six stops · Arundel Street to Freemasons' Hall · About 75 minutes
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Play the full tour
One continuous recording, the introduction and all six stops in a single track. Or open each stop below as you reach it.
Start here
Introduction
Play this before you set off, it sets up the walk in about two minutes.
Read the transcript
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Why Britain?
Why did they cross the Atlantic? Britain offered five things America could not.
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After the walk: reflect
You have stood where they stood. The experience only becomes learning when you stop and reflect on it. Find somewhere to pause, Freemasons' Hall has a café, and Lincoln's Inn Fields is five minutes north, and take ten minutes with these questions.
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Write your answers down, or record a voice note. And if you take one action, make it this: tell someone else one story from this walk within a week.
To read on
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Read the narratives free at docsouth.unc.edu and gutenberg.org. Search the Slave Compensation records at Legacies of British Slavery.
For parents, families & visitors
Walk London's hidden history with us
Our school walks also run as public tours at weekends and in the holidays. Book a ticket, meet your guide at the start point, and spend the walk on the streets where the history happened. Tickets and dates are on our two tour sites.
Westminster · Southwark · City of London
See dates & book tickets →
Hidden Tudors Tours
Uncover Tudor London's marginalised voices, Black Tudors, Catholics under persecution, and the six queens, on the streets and in the parish records where they lived. Public walks for adults, families and history lovers.
Notting Hill · Ladbroke Grove
See dates & book tickets →
Notting Hill Walks
Caribbean heritage and Carnival history, told with community elders and descendants, from Windrush and the 1958 riots to the Mangrove and sixty years of Carnival. Part of our 2026 Carnival 60th Anniversary Programme.
Bringing children?
The Tudor Kids Adventure walk is built for ages 8–11, with clue-solving and goodie bags. Children's & dramatised Tudor walks →
Private group?
Birthdays, community groups and societies can book any walk as a private tour. Get in touch →
Free community walks
Grant-funded quests for eligible London community groups run through our CIC. More Curricular CIC →
Where critical thinking meets living history
Heritage walks, skills workshops and CPD for schools, universities and communities across London.
Why choose More
Curricular?
Skills change everything. Study skills that show students how to learn. Heritage walks that develop critical thinking using primary sources and historic locations. CPD that gives teachers the strategies to make it stick. One goal: skills that last beyond the exam.
Parents & students
Help your child learn how to learn
Study-skills and writing courses for ages 7–18, built on what cognitive science says works.
Browse courses → Schools & universitiesTake the class to where history happened
Heritage walks that build critical thinking on the streets where Black Tudors, Windrush and the Reformation happened.
See the walks → TeachersStrategies you can use on Monday
Evidence-based CPD workshops, plus a plain-English guide to the 2026 Education White Paper.
Teacher CPD →Most children are taught what to revise. Never how.
Our courses teach the four techniques rated highest for lasting learning, retrieval practice, spaced practice, interleaving and deep processing, in bite-sized modules a child can do alone or with you.
Revision Note Maker
Cornell notes, metacognition and spaced retrieval practice, turn any topic into revision notes that stick.
Try it now →Critical thinking, in the streets where history happened
All six walks →More Curricular CIC
Our Community Interest Company
Grant-funded heritage walks, quests and exhibitions for London communities.
Our community interest company works with adults with learning disabilities, women's groups, refugees, schools and families, heritage education for people too often left out of it.
What families and students say
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Carnival 60 on RTVE · Listen
Research & reflections
Read the blog →Heritage walks
History, examined where it happened
Every walk is a critical-thinking workshop on foot. Built on original research, parish records, court documents, guild archives, students question primary sources on the streets they describe and construct their own understanding.
Six walks. Pick yours.
Westminster · Southwark · City of London · Notting Hill
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Why schools choose us
Six reasons teachers book again, and bring the next year group with them.
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Academic rigour
Every walk starts in the archive, not the guidebook.
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Inclusive narratives
Lives hidden in plain sight for 500 years, restored with dignity and evidence.
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Critical thinking
Students weigh sources and build arguments, skills that transfer across every subject.
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Curriculum integration
Mapped to Edexcel, AQA and KS2 specifications, with pre- and post-visit materials.
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Custom programming
Routes, length and focus adapted to your cohort, from Year 4 to undergraduate.
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Trusted worldwide
London councils, UK schools and American universities including Howard and NC State.
Book a walk for your class.
More Curricular CIC
Free walks, talks, quests, exhibitions and schools programmes across London, grant-funded and delivered with councils, community groups and archives.
Our purpose
Heritage education that reaches everyone
More Curricular CIC provides heritage education in the form of walks, quests, creative workshops and exhibitions. We deliver free educational programmes for adults with learning disabilities, women, community groups and refugees in London, and work with schools, families and healthcare organisations, creating immersive learning experiences that bring history to life.
Looking ahead
A society where education is inclusive, effective and empowers individuals to thrive, breaking down barriers whilst promoting personal growth, wellbeing, critical thinking and cultural understanding.
Personal growth
Wellbeing
Critical thinking
Cultural understanding
Who we are
The people behind the CIC
Yvette Reinfor
Director, Founder & Education Strategist
Founded More Curricular CIC in 2025 after five years of heritage walk delivery beginning with Open House London 2020. 25 years in higher, further and secondary education; leads every walk personally, drawing on parish records, guild archives and classical sources. Covered by The Voice, the Londonist and VICE.
David Mukasa
Director
Managed the Written in the Records exhibition in Wandsworth; supports walk delivery, runs the organisation's IT and contributes to business planning. PGCE, with experience in education and accounts.
Beatrice Ntim
Director
Board member providing governance oversight and strategic input. Business degree, PGCE and Masters, with a background in education and HR.
Our work
Projects delivered with councils, funders and communities
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Work with us
Our community programmes are not bookable. We secure funding to run free projects, like the Black History Month project, or partner with community groups and organisations to bid for a project together.
Courses
Study skills that actually work
Two kinds of online course for ages 7 to 18. Self-paced study courses learners work through in their own time, and live writing courses taught in small groups of no more than eight, with weekly marked work and live feedback sessions led by a DBS-checked tutor.
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More Handwriting
AI-powered tools that help parents and schools understand how children aged 2½ to 16 are developing as writers, identifying early cognitive milestones, assessing letter formation and fluency, and screening for indicators of dysgraphia and dyslexia.
Writing by hand activates parts of the brain that typing does not reach, freeing children to focus on ideas rather than letter formation.
Visit morehandwriting.co.uk
Shortlisted for the 2026 Stationers' Company Innovation Excellence Awards, from a record number of entries.
Teacher CPD
CPD you can use on Monday morning
Evidence-based workshops for teachers and support staff, built on cognitive science rather than fashion, plus a plain-English reading of the 2026 Education White Paper.
Bespoke CPD solutions
Tailored to your school's specific needs
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About us
Who we are and what we stand for
More Curricular is an education company specialising in heritage education, learning science and curriculum development, working with schools, London councils and universities in the UK and USA.
How it began
A teacher who got it wrong, and went back to learn more
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What we do
For parents & students
Study-skills and writing courses for ages 7–18, and public heritage walks at weekends.
Courses →For schools & universities
Curriculum-linked heritage walks across London, and bespoke programmes for HBCU and liberal arts groups.
Heritage walks →For teachers & councils
Evidence-based CPD and curriculum development, plus community heritage projects through More Curricular CIC.
Teacher CPD →As seen on
Yvette Reinfor on the History Roadshow
More Curricular's heritage work recognised on screen, Founder Yvette Reinfor discusses Tudor history and the stories that mainstream education has yet to fully tell.
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More Curricular CIC
Our community work has its own home
Grant-funded heritage walks, quests and exhibitions for London communities are delivered through More Curricular CIC, our registered Community Interest Company (No. 16228499). Same team, same values, with public accountability built in by law.
About the CIC →Work with us
Blog
Research & reflections
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Get in touch
Booking a walk, asking about CPD, enrolling a child or proposing a community partnership, tell us which and we will come back to you.
Postal address
Impact Brixton, 17a Electric Lane, Brixton, London SW9 8LA
More Curricular & More Curricular CIC
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