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Tobias Rustat memorial will not be removed from Cambridge college chapel

A memorial plaque to a man who funded the slave trade in the chapel of a Cambridge college will not be removed as the campaign to take it down was based on a “false narrative”, it has been announced. The plaque to Tobias Rustat, who invested in the ...

23 Mar 2022 at 13:25

Court to hear dispute over future of memorial to Cambridge college benefactor

An ecclesiastical court is to hear a dispute over whether a memorial to a 17th Century benefactor who invested in slave-trading companies can be moved from the chapel of a Cambridge University college. Tobias Rustat, who invested in the Royal ...

24 Jan 2022 at 11:55

Couple who enslaved Slovakian men and forced them to work at car wash are jailed

A couple who trafficked more than 40 vulnerable men to the UK from Slovakia and forced them into slavery in order to fund their gambling addiction have been jailed. Maros Tancos, 45, and Joanna Gomulska, 46, recruited their victims from care ...

22 Jun 2022 at 16:45

Rare anti-slavery poem by Coleridge at risk of leaving UK, according to DCMS

A rare anti-slavery poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic buyer can be found. The poem, a Greek Sapphic ode titled Ode On The West-Indian Slave Trade, discusses the evils of slavery and ...

17 Mar 2023 at 23:26

King backs research into British monarchy’s links to slavery

The King has expressed his support for the first time for research into the historical links between the British monarchy and the transatlantic slave trade. Buckingham Palace said Charles takes the issues “profoundly seriously” and ...

06 Apr 2023 at 13:04

William Gladstone’s descendants to apologise for family’s part in slave trade

The family of Victorian-era prime minister William Gladstone are due to travel to the Caribbean to apologise for the historical part an ancestor played in the slave trade. William, who was Liberal prime minister on four occasions ...

19 Aug 2023 at 23:57

World

Rio Tinto workers among six dead after charter plane crash in north-west Canada

Six people died when a small plane carrying employees of the Rio Tinto mining company crashed in Canada’s Northwest Territories on Tuesday, authorities have confirmed. The Northwest Territories coroner’s office said four ...

25 Jan 2024 at 07:31

‘Restricting audiences on basis of race wrong and divisive’, says Downing Street

Downing Street has said the idea of black-only audiences for some nights of a West End theatrical production is “wrong and divisive”. Slave Play at the Noel Coward Theatre, which features Game Of Thrones star Kit ...

29 Feb 2024 at 15:00

Kit Harington to star in UK premiere of Slave Play

Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington has joined the cast of Slave Play, which will premiere on the West End stage this summer, it has been announced. The production, playing from June 29 until September 21 at the ...

27 Feb 2024 at 00:01

West End play ‘carefully considering’ black-only nights amid Number 10 criticism

Producers of a West End theatrical production are “carefully considering” holding evenings with black-only audiences amid criticism from Downing Street. Slave Play at the Noel Coward Theatre, which features ...

29 Feb 2024 at 16:01

Family descended from slaveowners to apologise and pay £100,000 to Grenada

A British family whose ancestors had slaves in the 1800s is to apologise to the people of a Caribbean island and pay reparations. One of the family members, a BBC reporter, said the Trevelyan family is ...

05 Feb 2023 at 06:55

Scotland

University of Dundee founded on family wealth linked to slavery, study shows

The University of Dundee was partially founded on wealth derived from a family with links to the transatlantic slave trade, a study has shown. Members of the Baxter family, whose company Baxter ...

17 Oct 2022 at 18:43

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