As calls grow for the UK to acknowledge its historic role in the transatlantic slave trader, historian Stephen Taylor draws ...

Stephen Taylor, The Independent As recent events have shown, the debate about reparations for enslavement will not be going ...

“We have to give him the befitting burial he deserves,” his son Akinwumi Akinkunmi told the BBC Focus on Africa podcast ... the colonial flag that had included the British union jack and ...

The heart of the Palestinian struggle lies in a tapestry of these symbols, woven with history, hope and resilience. These ...

When someone mentions pirates, images of peg legs, parrots, grand pirate ships, and buried treasure permeate our minds. Embellished stories of seafaring rogues offer a romanticized version of lives ...

Category B jail – the second highest level of security – to discover what life is really like inside. Recently, the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) found the jail to be chronically overcrowded and ...

A woman with her face covered by a Kenyan flag protests against George Floyd's death As protests rock the US following the death of African-American ... the wealthy Upper West Side.

Built in 1753 and opening its doors to the public four years later, the British Museum has seen the rise and fall of the ...

Haiti could be taken over by a "Russian-backed gang" as Vladimir Putin looks to build an anti-West ... flag and beg Putin's ...

Ministers have dropped concerns about councils adopting a four-day week. The move coincides with TfL drawing up plans to ...

Researchers, farmers, and global agricultural institutions are embracing long-neglected crops that promise better nutrition and more resilience to the changing climate.

On the northwest border of Slovenia is a mountain range as dramatic as it is accessible, offering hut-to-hut hiking on ...