Dan Lyndon

Dan Lyndon is an Advanced Skills Teacher of History with 15 years of experience in schools in London. He was Head of History at Henry Compton School, an inner city boys 11-16 boys inner city comprehensive in Fulham from 2000-2008 and previously taught at Carshalton High School fror Girls for 7 years, where he was also an examiner for Edexcel. He has published two education packs on Olaudah Equiano and Walter Tull and has acted as a consultant to QCA and the DCSF, as well as working with institutions such as the Museum in Docklands and Birmingham Museums and Galleries. Dan has extensive experience as a provider of INSET including the Schools History Project Conference, the Wellcome Institute, Southwark, Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham Local Authorities. He has made four films for Teachers TV about integrating Black history into the National Curriculum and has hosted his website http://www.blackhistory4schools.com for the last three years. In addition Dan has made a number of media appearances including the BBC 1 o clock news, BBC Radio 5, Radio London and on ITV’s ‘Fortune Million Pound Giveaway’ in which he successfully bid for £9000 to take 40 of his students to the First World War battlefields.