Park could be renamed after Diane Abbott in Labour council slavery review
Other suggestions proposed by about 300 pupils aged five to 13 as part of the project to address “injustice, prejudice and racism” were “BAME Park”, “Multi-faith Park”…
Park could be renamed after Diane Abbott by Labour council in slavery review
Other suggestions proposed by about 300 pupils aged five to 13 as part of the project to address “injustice, prejudice and racism” were “BAME Park”, “Multi-faith Park”…
Vale, Caecilius: Cambridge Latin textbook rewritten because Roman banker had a slave
One 2019 academic article in the US argued that: “The sanitation and normalisation of slavery as exemplified by Grumio in the Cambridge Latin Course has allowed slavery…
Entire London suburb could be ‘cancelled’ as council decolonisers close in
The culture wars have seen statues removed and reputations “cancelled” – now entire areas are in the line of fire for their supposed historic connections. The south…
An entire London suburb could be ‘cancelled’ as council decolonisers close in
The culture wars have seen statues removed and reputations “cancelled” – now entire areas are in the line of fire for their supposed historic connections. The south…
The Procession is a bravura picture of colonial history in a building built on sugar
Empires have always made for tremendous theatre. “The paraphernalia of power,” said the British-Guyanese sculptor Hew Locke, “its pomp and circumstance – that’s my thing.” He was…
‘Cancelled’, the 1804 train with supposed links to slavery
Trains could face a new kind of “cancellation”, as National Museum Wales reviews steam-powered technology over claims it was linked to the slave trade. Richard Trevithick unveiled…
Uh oh: the (lethal) hidden cost of the clothes we wear
Turning the last page of artist and writer Sofi Thanhauser’s Worn: A People’s History of Clothing and looking again at the image on the cover – a…
We are not trashing history, says Kew Gardens chief
The director of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew has said that the institution is an “exemplar” of the Government’s policy to retain contentious history, after removing a promise…
Kew Gardens: We’ll change … but we won’t be ‘decolonising’
The director of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew has said that the institution is an “exemplar” of the Government’s policy to retain contentious history, after removing a promise…
White Debt by Thomas Harding, review: is honest writing about British slavery now sadly impossible?
As uprisings go, it was impressively non-violent, with plantation owners and overseers put in stocks, but otherwise left unharmed. Nonetheless, instead of agreeing to the hoped-for negotiations,…
‘My friends turned me into a slave – and the police didn’t intervene’
I was 23 when I moved into a house with five other people. It was 2005 and I was new to the UK, studying at an international…
In toppling Thomas Jefferson, the woke mob has shown that it wants to destroy America itself
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these…
Lubaina Himid, review: long-hidden stories brought stirringly into the light
Over the past five years, Lubaina Himid, who was born in Zanzibar in 1954 and won the Turner Prize in 2017, has enjoyed a great deal of…