Booker Prize urged to consider changing name over slavery ties
Prestigious literary prize is named after George and Josias Booker who enslaved 200 people on a cotton plantation in 1800s
Source: yahoo.com
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Booker Prize urged to consider changing name over slavery links
Broadcaster and host of Radio 1Xtra Richie Brave, whose ancestors were enslaved, implored organisers to 'ask themselves some questions.'
Source: hotpress.com
Booker Prize urged to consider changing name over original sponsors' slavery ties
Founders of company that went on to sponsor prize had enslaved 200 people on a cotton plantation in 1800s
Source: independent.co.uk
'About the thinnest horse' vet had seen put down to end her suffering
A case involving “about the thinnest” horse a vet had ever seen has concluded with three people being banned from keeping equines for seven years. Kerry Ruth Pugh, of Bosbury, Ledbury, Herefordshire, Jessica Paige Pugh, of Arlington Place, Broom Hall, Worcester, and Oliver Daelan Fairy, of Tan House Lane, Malvern, appeared at Hereford Magistrate’ Court […]
Source: horseandhound.co.uk
Elgin marbles - Everything2.com
The frieze and sculpture from the pediments of the Parthenon, the temple dedicated to Athena, were taken from the Acropolis to England in 1806 by the Br...
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