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British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition

Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says

The Guardian - UK

The trouble with defining politicians by their university degrees

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Blake Morrison about Andy Burnham’s English literature degree and love of poetry

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Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery

Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive

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Get up close to Cecil Beaton's family archive at intimate exhibition on the Hawarden Estate

For most of the 20th century, if you were anybody at all – Hollywood royalty, actual royalty, It girls and society ladies, even, at the end of his life, punks – you were sure to have been photographed by Cecil Beaton.

Evening Standard

Descendants of slave owners in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN

Great-great-grandson of William Gladstone tells of ‘profound sense of guilt’

The Independent UK

What does Trump have in store for the world in his second term? History provides some clues

Donald Trump is on the eve of becoming only the second United States president to begin a non-consecutive term. Grover Cleveland, more than a century ago, was the other.

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Mayfair apartment in former Rolls Royce HQ sells to 'young international buyer' for £26m

The apartment, which was listed for sale in April last year, has links to the Elgin Marbles, Queen Victoria and Paul McCartney, as well as Rolls Royce

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Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain

Prices and rents will fall under Rachel Reeves’ plans, enabling a younger generation with new ideas to enter the field

The Guardian - UK

Here’s what Keir Starmer gets wrong about reparations: we’ve made them before, but now we have to do it right

The call for justice is not going away. Rather than ignore it, Labour should be entering the conversation – and shaping it, says academic Kojo Koram

The Guardian - UK

Budget 2024: What time will tax-raising Budget speech by Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves start on Wednesday?

And how long will it be?

Evening Standard

Commonwealth slavery reparations debate: What could the UK be asked to pay?

Reparations is expected to be a key talking point in Samoa

The Independent UK

A delicious history of the apple – from the Tian Sian mountains to supermarket shelves

Reading labels in the supermarket, you may have wondered where your apples come from – but have you ever thought about why you’re eating apples in the first place? Author Sally Coulthard’s new book gives you the answer to this question – and to many more you’d never thought to…

The Conversation

‘A live issue’: Hew Locke’s new work referencing slavery displayed in London

British-Guyanese sculptor’s collage to be unveiled at British Academy with British Museum show in October

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer was once my apprentice – and this is how I think he might fare as prime minister

He is not offering great reform, but his Wilson-like workaholism and Attlee-like seriousness are what we need now, says Geoffrey Robertson KC

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The history of carpetbaggers and their Scottish opponents

CANDIDATES parachuted into Scottish constituencies where they have no local connection has been an issue in this election – but the phenomenon is…

The Times of India

In early 20th century, a Parsi cricketer from Surat was a star in Los Angeles

NEW DELHI: USA cricketers with an India connection have enjoyed a terrific run in the ongoing T20 World Cup. But not many know that in the early years of the 20th century, a Parsi cricketer from Surat was one of the most lethal spin bowlers in southern California. He was…

The Guardian - UK

Don’t despair. History shows Labour even cash-strapped governments can be radical

Sir Keir’s team will inherit a poisoned chalice from the Tories, but progress needn’t depend on the state opening its wallet

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Digested week: John Lewis selling vibrators – is nothing safe from All That?

After a week in introvert’s heaven at William Gladstone’s Library, the modern world in all its awfulness floods back

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Evening Standard

Hawarden Castle: Inside the new West End residence at William Gladstone's one-of-a-kind home

Kate Lough is one of the first guests to stay in The West End at Hawarden Castle, the latest project from the creative Gladstone family

The Independent UK

Britain risks being ‘left in the cold’ by ignoring demands for slavery reparations, MP warns

Exclusive: Bell Ribeiro-Addy, chair of the cross-party group on reparations, said UK had a ‘moral duty’ to face up to the past as campaigners gather in London this weekend

The Independent UK

Grenada prime minister calls on Britain to pay slavery reparations: ‘It’s the decent thing to do’

Exclusive: If the UK wants to be a country that demonstrates values of justice, then it should say sorry for its mass enslavement of African people, Dickon Mitchell tells The Independent

The Guardian - UK

Guyana’s president asks European slave traders’ descendants to pay reparations

Irfaan Ali also demands posthumous charges for crimes against humanity for traders and enslavers

Evening Standard

Family of former PM William Gladstone to apologise for links to the slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies

The Independent UK

William Gladstone’s descendants to apologise for family’s part in slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.

The Guardian - UK

How William Gladstone defended his father’s role in slavery

The great Victorian statesman’s glittering career was financed by huge profits made in the 1820s and 30s on Guyanese estates

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