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SOURCE: New York Times
9/22/2020
U.K. Conservation Society Details Links to Colonialism and Slavery
The British historic preservation agency has begun to grapple with how to present the historic connections between properties it manages and fortunes built through slavery and colonialism.
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SOURCE: NY Times
1/10/20
Boris Johnson Might Break Up the U.K. That’s a Good Thing.
by David Edgerton
It’s time to let the fantasy of the “British nation” die.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail
6/23/2019
Leading historians and academics to launch five-year project to chronicle the UK's history dating back to 1603
In 2023, it will be brought together in a single-volume book, Britain: The Thread of History 1603-2016, published by Bantam Press.
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SOURCE: Inside Sources
5/26/2019
BBC Reporter Educated in U.S. Frames the “Brutal” Brexit Exit of Theresa May
by Esau Williams
Theresa May’s exit is not likely to change Britian's relationship with Europe much.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11-2-18
The British Empire is still being whitewashed by the UK’s school curriculum
by Deana Heath
Why this must change.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
11-7-18
10,000 Years of British History to Be Unearthed in Excavations in Advance of Planned Rail Line
Initial finds include hunter-gatherer site on outskirts of London, Wars of the Roses battlefield, Industrial Revolution burial guard.
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SOURCE: Quartz
10-25-18
It's 2018 and the UK is just now getting its first black female history professor?
Yes, that's right. Her name is Olivette Otele and she studies the history of the slave trade.
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SOURCE: NYT
10-25-18
200 Years On, U.K. Hunts for Grave of Man Called World’s 1st Black Sports Star
One of London’s main rail stations is being redeveloped, prompting the excavation of a burial ground containing the remains of an estimated 45,000 Londoners, including the boxer Bill Richmond, a freed American slave.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10-2-18
'Cyber-racism': UK Black History Month website attacked
The UK Black History Month website has been brought down by hackers for a second time in 24 hours in what its editors believe to be a case of “cyber-racism.”
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SOURCE: The Guardian
9-30-18
UK Councils condemned for 'shameful' rebranding of Black History Month
Appropriation row comes as councils scrap the Black History Month name in favor of celebrations of all different ethnicities.
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SOURCE: CGTN
9-18-18
UK university to atone for profits of hundreds of millions of dollars gained from historical slavery
Glasgow University has announced a program of "reparative justice," and will create a center for the study of slavery as well as a memorial.
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SOURCE: Keep The Faith
7-1-18
Historian seeks UK apology for forced wartime conscription of West Africans
The campaign, the first of its kind, is being led by historian and author Dr Robert Peprah-Gyamfi, whose own uncle was among those forced conscripts.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
6-28-18
True scale of UK role in torture and rendition after 9/11 revealed
Two damning reports reveal British intelligence’s treatment of terrorism suspects.
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SOURCE: NYT
2-5-18
How Nations Recover
by David Brooks
Lessons from British history show that with inspired leadership a country can overcome polarization and economic challenges.
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SOURCE: Express
12-21-17
"It's a race!" Will the UK or EU collapse first? What Norman Davies thinks.
“I’m pretty certain that Poland will last longer than the United Kingdom.”
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11-1-17
Bin Laden's disdain for the west grew in Shakespeare's birthplace, journal shows
CIA released journal as part of 470,000 documents collected from Bin Laden’s house, showing he visited the UK as a teenager and found it to be ‘decadent’
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
1-12-17
UK Government's 'Monstrous' Stonehenge Tunnel Plan Green-Lit
The British government has greenlit a controversial plan to build a 1.8-mile two-lane highway underneath Stonehenge, the iconic array of 4,000-year-old pillars in the south of England.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
12-20-16
UK to celebrate its gay history
The trust will publish a new guidebook next year telling the LGBTQ history of some of its properties, and put on a range of events under the headline Prejudice and Pride.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
9-12-16
Report in the UK: Claims that the history of the British empire is not being widely taught in schools are false
The former education secretary’s claim that much history teaching was informed by post-colonial guilt is not supported by data, according to British Education Research Association study.
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SOURCE: Express
1-10-16
Anger at UK history course that teaches pupils Africans lived in Britain before the English
The course has been slammed as "pro-immigration propaganda."
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