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The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed
A new BBC documentary tells how a trove of documents lays bare the names of Britain’s 46,000 slave owners, including relatives of Gladstone and…
The past has a disconcerting habit of bursting, uninvited and unwelcome, into the…
This year history gate-crashed modern America in…