ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the place of diversity in The Newbolt Report and how this relates to concepts of diversity and cultural capital in the current National Curriculum (NC) in England. Both Newbolt and the NC are framed in the language of social justice, although neither text fully speaks to contemporary conceptualisations of diversity. The only fully developed focus on issues of diversity in the Report concerns the significance of high-quality education for working class children, something to which The Committee was strongly committed. There is a much smaller section about education for girls, but little or nothing about other groups such as BAME or LGBTQ+ communities. After locating Newbolt in the social context of post-World War I Britain, the chapter examines what the Report says about the importance of education in English for working-class communities, using this as a lens through which to view the current NC with its different conceptualisation of knowledge and its implications for diversity in education.
