The battle for our memory is the battle for our country

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Danny Bird Your book opens with the story of a woman named Solitude on Guadaloupe. Why did you choose to start with her and what can she tell us about the wider history of resistance among enslaved pe

A reactionary radical’s case against progress

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It has become fashionable today for critics of major western museums to call for a ‘reckoning’ or ‘coming to terms’ with the imperialist and racist histories of some institutions. This approach is roo

Karishma Patel , a former BBC journalist, attended the counter march to the far right’s Unite the Kingdom rally