The broadcaster’s decision to remove one episode and edit others to meets its editorial guidelines for children’s programmes has been criticised as ‘insane’

🧵 Tips on Teaching the British Empire 1/8 Talking to teachers lately, it seems a condensed guide to the main foundations of the C19 British Empire might be helpful. Here's how I introduce if to first year undergrads in three 50m sessions.

Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London

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Regarded as one of England’s ‘Treasure Houses’, Harewood House’s history, like most prominent British institutions, is closely linked to slavery and colonialism.

Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’

White Minority Rule in Rhodesia Reexamined: Urgent Lessons from the Past

Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...

Schemes mostly affecting impoverished Aboriginal people blocked spending of benefits on alcohol and tobacco but critics claim it has harmed families

Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has confirmed the review after Donald Trump told Andy Burnham the deal was "terrible".

Manchester University Press remembers Professor John M. MacKenzie, founding editor of Studies in Imperialism, with tributes from colleagues reflecting on his scholarship, generosity and lasting legacy...

Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

Foreword by Sathnam Sanghera Selected as a 'Book of the Year' by BBC History Magazine Sharp, authoritative essays on the dark realities of Empire and the true historian’s importance for democracy, a...

Margaret Butler, Ngaire Digby, Mira Knox, Alan Lester, Sheila Marshall, Andrea Mason and Katherine Prior St John the Evangelist Church at Newtimber, West Sussex, is a lovely little building nestled…

Published in 1807, the Slave Bible was a distortion of Christianity that remains the Church of England’s guilty secret

Register of British Slave Traders shows clergymen financed company that trafficked enslaved Africans on hundreds of voyages

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

Tory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave trade

Register of British Slave Traders reveals how deeply the trafficking of Africans was embedded in the country’s politics, economy, institutions and culture

Tory and Whig MPs were central to funding trafficking of enslaved people and many opposed abolition of the slave trade

Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans

The Chinese president attended a summit of ‘middle powers’, including Putin and Modi, determined to find an alternative global order to that led by the US

It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.

Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...

By Toyin Falola Occasionally, what a person achieves eclipses who they are. They may be allowed into an institution because of scholarship, research, intellectual contribution, or intellectual promise...

Free online lecture by award-winning author and historian Professor Randy M. Browne (Xaiver University)

Police are investigating after children were subjected to "offensive" comments online.

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

Initiatief van Willem-Alexander Op initiatief van koning Willem-Alexander werd tussen 2023 en 2026 een breed en onafhankelijk onderzoek verricht naar de rol van het Huis Oranje-Nassau in de koloniale ...

The UK drew immense wealth from our country. But was the slavery that underpinned the empire ever lawful? We deserve a fair hearing

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Israel and Mike Huckabee denounce the foreign secretary’s comments on aid in Gaza