Charles will visit the region later this month but questions about Britain’s colonial legacy are getting louder

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“Come over and help us,” reads the original seal of the Massachusetts Bay Company, a sign of one strand of Puritan justification for colonization. But Christianisation was only part of it. In this tre...

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Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

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James Bradshaw by Joseph Wright of Derby If you’ve been watching Professor David Olusoga’s series ‘Finding Britain’s Slave Traders’ you will have seen the new Register of Br…

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Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Thursday 24th September, 4-5pm, Online Come and find out about a fantastic bank of new resources on the Bayeux Tapestry that can be used to introduce pupils to Latin.  The resources...

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William Pynchon, earliest colonial ancestor of the novelist Thomas Pynchon, was a key figure in the early settlement of New England. He also wrote a book which became, at the hands of the Puritans it ...