Granville Williams abhors the threats to institutions over research into slavery, while Christopher Gordon writes that Arts Council England has presided over a climate of fearThe mindset and language of Tory politicians discussing broadcasting and the …
Climate crisis leaving ‘millions at risk of trafficking and slavery’
Droughts and floods forcing workers from rural areas, leading to their exploitation in cities, report warnsMillions of people forced to leave their homes because of severe drought and powerful cyclones are at risk of modern slavery and human traffickin…
Brutes
Amitav Ghosh’s meditations on the myth of the voiceless.
A case of the Palestinian blues
Recording under quarantine, a musical trio gives a classic blues song an Arabic twist, exploring new depths for Black-Palestinian solidarity. [+972 Magazine] For Kareem Samara, a British-Palestinian multi-instrumentalist, composer, and sound artist, it…
Pompeii tomb reveals formerly enslaved man’s rise to wealth and power
The tomb’s inscription also offers the first evidence of Greek theater in the city.
25 Playwrights and their Plays, 1700-1799
Mary Pix (1666-1709): Manchester Metropolitan University recently posted a complete performance (production credits) of Mary Pix’s comedy, The Beau Defeated (1700). The play was also adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company under the title The Fantasti…
Is time up for the ‘Blackboy clock’? Racism row divides Cotswolds town
Campaigners pushing to remove Stroud’s 240-year-old figure are accused of trying to erase history by the local Tory MPMuch of Dan Guthrie’s life has been haunted by a disturbing mechanised figure resembling a tethered black slave boy, which is supposed…
The links between Welsh slate and slavery | Letter
Steve Cushion on the Pennant family, who used the profits made by enslaved workers in Jamaica to expand the Penrhyn slate quarryYour article (Welsh slate landscape becomes UK’s newest world heritage site, 28 July) did not mention the origins of the fin…