Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans

In 1833, slavery in the British Empire was abolished, but not without a massive compensation scheme paid out to slave owners. Some of that money flowed to colonial Australia. Two-thirds of Australia's...

Alan Lester Key points: 1. Trans-Atlantic slavery was unlike other forms of slavery. People were commodified and racialised as ‘objects’ for capital accumulation. 2. The Church of England invested …

As Mexico prepares to become the first country to host or co-host the World Cup three times, BBC Sport looks at its Cornish footballing roots.

thousands of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.

Martin Shipton The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal. Dan Thomas, the former Conservat...

Claire Connolly’s ambitious study captures well both the gradual development of Irish Romanticism and its ‘copiousness’

Abstract. A new survey of ‘Liberated Africans’ exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly

In the spring of 1685, Morgan Godwyn, a minister who had served in Virginia and Barbados for more than 15 years, disappeared after publishing a book condemning

On Friday 16 January 2026 (14.00-16.00), the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities and the Centre for Global American Studies, will be hosting historian Seth Rockman (Brown).

University of Exeter Debating Society 22nd Nov 2025 Argument for the Proposition Alan Lester The modern European empires were many things, but above all they were vehicles for the transfer of asset…

Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says

On January 1, 1863 Boston’s abolitionist community gathered on a cold, cloudy, and gloomy day in anticipation of the news that Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation.