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King Charles backs research into monarchy's slave links

King Charles has given his support to research that will examine the British monarchy's links to slavery, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, after a newspaper report said a document showed a historical connection with a transatlantic slave trader.

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King Charles backs research into monarchy’s links to slavery

King Charles has expressed his support for research into the historical links between the British monarchy and the transatlantic slave trade.

The New Daily

King backs research into British monarchy’s links to slavery for first time

The royal household will offer a historian access to the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives as part of the independent academic project.

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King Charles supports research into royal family’s ties to slavery in unprecedented move

Buckingham Palace says it will provide researchers full access to the Royal Collection and the Royal Archives

The Independent UK

The Colston connection: how Prince William’s Kensington Palace home is linked to slavery

Palace was residence of William III, who was given shares in slave-transport company, and successive monarchs involved in trade

The Guardian - UK

King Charles signals first explicit support for research into monarchy’s slavery ties

Buckingham Palace makes public statement after Guardian presents evidence of royals’ long history of involvement in transatlantic trade

The Guardian - UK

The British kings and queens who supported and profited from slavery

From Elizabeth I to William IV, over a period of 270 years monarchs had links to the slave trade

The Guardian - UK

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Britain’s slavery story is not confined to the past

Letters: Tony Boobier, Julie Grier, Robert Hercliffe, Austen Lynch and Greg Marsden reflect on the Guardian’s Cotton Capital series of articles

The Guardian - UK

‘A necessary step forward’: readers on the Guardian’s Cotton Capital series

Your reactions to the project investigating the Guardian founders’ links to slavery and the impact of the slave trade

The Guardian - UK

Artist's latest work helps link museum with city's waterfront

The sculpture is part of the International Slavery Museum's Waterfront Transformation Project

Liverpool Echo

As a black Mancunian I was taught about Liverpool’s slavery past, not Manchester’s – that has to change

I’ve always been proud of my home city. To keep that alive I need to know Manchester’s full history, not its redacted one, says writer Natalie Morris

The Guardian - UK

When Passover 2023 starts, how long is it and how to wish someone Happy Passover

Preparations for the Pesach are already under way - what happens at Passover and how do you wish someone a Happy Passover?

Manchester Evening News

Here’s everything you need to know as Passover starts this week

As one of the most widely observed holidays in the Jewish tradition, Passover commemorates the liberation of Jews from slavery in Egypt.

Chicago Sun-Times

Like the Guardian, Manchester is reckoning with its historical links to slavery

In 1862, the city’s cotton workers took a stand against slavery, but some voices were more ambivalent, says Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester

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Cotton Capital: how slavery made Manchester the world’s first industrial city

A visual exploration of historical Manchester’s rapid growth into a ‘shock city’ – and how slavery was key to the emergence of Cottonopolis

The Independent UK

Passover Seders offer a time to talk about Israel protests

This year, when the slavery-to-freedom story of Passover unfolds, mass demonstrations in Israel will be top of mind for many Jews around the globe

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Kids deserve to know the truth about America's racist past. Even if it's painful

Last month, school officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, told teachers to stop showing students a Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated an all-white New Orleans elementary school in the 1960s.

The Independent UK

Efforts to tackle modern slavery ‘waning as transparency rules ignored’

Just 29% of organisations required to produce a modern slavery statement have submitted it to the Government registry for 2022, analysis found.

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The Guardian - UK

Unravelling the threads that link us to the slave-owning past

Letters: Readers respond to David Olusoga’s article focusing on how slavery shaped the Guardian, Britain and the world

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the legacies of slavery: a reckoning with our past must shape our future

The Guardian’s research into its links to transatlantic slavery has made us aware of our broader responsibilities

The Guardian - UK

Painting a new pantheon: portrait series honours Black radicals

Artists and writers pay tribute to figures who resisted slavery and racism, as part of Guardian project exploring the paper’s links to enslavement

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian’s slavery links: it’s right to finally confront the wrongs of the past

Letters: Readers respond to the Guardian’s investigation uncovering its founders’ connections with the slave trade

The Guardian - UK

A tale of two cities: the struggle for a Black history of Manchester

The city’s image of protest and rebellion obscures its links to slavery. But there is a push to acknowledge the Black radicalism in its past

The Guardian - UK

More than money: the logic of slavery reparations

It’s not just about payment. It is about engaging in good faith with the descendants of enslaved people and addressing inequalities – to make a better future possible

The Guardian - UK

King Charles needn’t sell off the crown jewels in atonement for slavery – but Britain must waive Jamaica’s debt

Money can only ever begin to make amends, says activist and former broadcaster Barbara Blake-Hannah

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