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FedEx Freight to take over as title sponsor of NASCAR Truck Series in 2027

FedEx Freight will replace Craftsman as the entitlement sponsor for the third level of NASCAR racing

Motorsport · Sep 17

Fresh evidence of C of E’s role in enslavement uncovered as church wrestles with reparations debate

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

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

The strange history of bigamy in England: fake tears, secret weddings and double lives

The historical source material on bigamy depicts an awful lot of weeping. Sometimes the tears are behind the scenes – the reaction of a deserted first wife or deceived second wife to the revelation of her husband’s crime.

The Conversation · Aug 28

Meta Ramsay: The British intelligence pioneer who could have been MI6’s first female ‘C’

Labour peer was a senior agent during the height of the Cold War

The Independent UK · May 29

Tributes pour in for MI6 ‘trailblazer’ Baroness Meta Ramsay

Her tenure included participation in the 1985 extraction of KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky from the Soviet Union

The Independent UK · May 29

Meta Ramsay: the spy who could have been MI6’s first female ‘C’

After a 22-year career in intelligence she became a Labour minister in the Lords, helping to steer Scottish devolution.

Evening Standard · May 29

Beyond Disney: A 1616 portrait of Pocahontas shows how English colonizers saw Indigenous Americans

Thanks to the Walt Disney Company, Pocahontas may be the most famous Native American who lived in the 17th century. The animated film version of her early life included her speaking with a willow tree, befriending animals, singing about “the colors of the wind,” and being caught up in an…

The Conversation · May 25

Yorkshire’s WallFest launched to protect crumbling boundary wall of ‘world’s first nature reserve’

Pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton enclosed his parkland and lake near Wakefield in the 1820s

The Guardian - UK · May 13

Updated Utah State Aggies All-Time FBS Football Seasons

Every Utah State FBS football season with conference, W-L record, win percentage, coach, and bowl game, if any.

SuperWest Sports · Mar 13

‘My prey, my prize, my Vladimir’: flipping the gender script on predatory professors

Campus tales of power and desire typically produce neat narratives of victimhood: lecherous, middle-aged male professor preys on nubile female student. Vladimir, the Netflix series adapted by Julia May Jonas from her bestselling novel, complicates this gendered phenomenon and its predictable dynamics.

The Conversation · Mar 12