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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

How enslavement became state-backed operation supported by Conservative and Lib Dem forerunners

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

The Guardian - UK

Photo of Disraeli among missing parliamentary works of art, FoI request finds

Press Association given list of 65 items from publicly owned collection that have gone missing since 2024

The Guardian - UK

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Photograph of Disraeli and Wilberforce engraving among ‘missing’ Parliament art

A Freedom of Information request shows more than 65 artworks have been misplaced since the start of 2024.

Evening Standard

As the year begins, don’t look away from the headlines, look better and deeper

It’s important to cultivate a fresh way of seeing – one that isn’t blind to harsh realities but refuses to be cowed by them

The Guardian - AU

Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance

Millions of people were abducted from west Africa and forcibly trafficked to the Americas over the 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade, from the 15th to the 19th century.

The Conversation

I came to Britain from India, fulfilled a dream, and I say this: we’re a great country, but a work in progress

There is still a misrepresentation of the colonial past. Without the truth of what we have been, how can we move forward, asks author and broadcaster Mihir Bose

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Behind the RSPCA's 50-year rebrand

We speak to the people behind the triumphant brand refresh of the RSPCA.

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15 famous cats (and how they rose to stardom)

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Big business benefited from slavery – let it pay reparations

Letters: Readers reflect on the business of slavery and who should refund the unpaid wages from which enslavers profited so handsomely

The Guardian - UK

When was slavery abolished in the UK? Descendants of slave owners call for reparations

The campaigning body ‘Heirs of Slavery’ has called for British institutions to recognise their role in the slave trade

Evening Standard

The Manchester Guardian: the limits of liberalism in the kingdom of cotton

Manchester’s liberal establishment backed the abolition of British slavery – but their wealth depended on the labour of enslaved Africans in the United States

The Guardian - UK

As a historian of slavery, I know just how much the royal family has to answer for in Jamaica

Protests during the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s visit to the Caribbean highlight royalty’s pivotal role in the slave trade, says historian Trevor Burnard

The Guardian - UK

Prince William expresses ‘profound sorrow’ at slavery in Jamaica speech

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are touring the Caribbean to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

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William expresses ‘profound sorrow’ at slavery and acknowledges Jamaica’s ‘pain’

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are touring the Caribbean to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

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