Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London The Guardian - UK · Sep 27
The pie floater: it’s all gravy, upside down Brief letters: Australian street food | David Cameron memory test | Senseless humans | Hand-knitted swimwear | The Manchester Guardian The Guardian - UK · Jun 30
Veronica Gosling obituary Other lives: Novelist and artist who was drawn to found objects for their shapes, textures and hidden histories The Guardian - UK · Dec 21, 2025
Nazi Germany imposes Nuremberg Laws stripping Jews of citizenship – archive, 1935 On 15 September 1935, Hitler’s regime introduced laws depriving German Jews of their citizenship and forbidding marriage between Jews and ‘citizens of German or kindred blood’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2025
LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000 Going to the Mill was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian and had remained in the family The Guardian - UK · May 2, 2025
Friday briefing: One year on from the Guardian’s look at its historic connections to slavery In today’s newsletter: What the Legacies of Engagement programme has achieved in its first year – and what’s still to do The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2024
I Seek a Kind Person by Julian Borger review – the small ads that saved Jewish children from the Nazis Borger’s account of how pleas in the Manchester Guardian by Viennese parents trying to rescue their children – one of them his father – from the Holocaust is gripping and powerful The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024
I Seek a Kind Person by Julian Borger review – rescued from the Nazis The moving story of children saved by classified ads placed on their behalf by desperate parents The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2024
Opened: The time capsule hidden 150 years ago by a community in exile who made Manchester their home "Opening the time capsule was a rare treat, a whiff of Indiana Jones to live up the daily routine." Manchester Evening News · Jun 11, 2023
Shirley Baker captured a lost way of life. She never got the credit she was due From the streets and communities of Manchester and Salford in the 1960s to the punk scene in the 1980s Manchester Evening News · May 28, 2023
From the archive: how the Guardian covered slavery The paper supported abolition – but backed payment for enslavers, and criticised more radical campaigners. In the US civil war, the editors refused to support the north The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2023
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 · Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday briefing: The real origins of the money that helped found the Guardian In today’s newsletter: The Guardian’s owner has apologised for the newspaper’s historic links to the trade of enslaved people – this is why The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2023
Guardian apologises after founders’ link to transatlantic slavery revealed Research commissioned in 2020 by the paper’s owner threw up ‘significant new facts’ about the publication’s founder The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2023 The Scott Trust publishes review into the Guardian’s historical connections with transatlantic slavery, issuing an apology and outlining a programme of restorative justice The Scott Trust has today published its review into the Guardian’s historical connections with transatlantic slavery.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2023 The Guardian and slavery: what did the research find and what happens next? The Scott Trust has apologised and announced a programme of restorative justice after identifying the Guardian founders’ links to transatlantic slavery
The Guardian - UK · Mar 28, 2023 How our founders’ links to slavery change the Guardian today The Guardian is facing up to, and apologising for, the fact that its first editor drew his wealth from a practice that was a crime against humanity