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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.

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.

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.

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.

The British Empire is still being whitewashed by the UK’s school curriculum

by Deana Heath

Why this must change.

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.

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.

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.

'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.”

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.

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.

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.

True scale of UK role in torture and rendition after 9/11 revealed

Two damning reports reveal British intelligence’s treatment of terrorism suspects.

How Nations Recover

by David Brooks

Lessons from British history show that with inspired leadership a country can overcome polarization and economic challenges.

"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.”

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’

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.

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.

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.

Anger at UK history course that teaches pupils Africans lived in Britain before the English

The course has been slammed as "pro-immigration propaganda."