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In 2020, the National Trust released its ‘interim report’ on the connections between its properties and colonialism and slavery. It quickly became obvious that the report had not been commissioned in the spirit of free historical inquiry, but as a way to tarnish the National Trust and Britain’s history. The report found that 93 properties
Highgate Cemetery will reveal the connections to empire and colonialism of its illustrious dead in a new drive for inclusivity and diversity.
Railways on the African continent tell the stories of imperial ambition, and of urban development that forever changed how settlements functioned.
From piercing studies of colonialism to powerful domestic sagas and all points in between, our panel of writers share their favourite titles of 2021
The countryside is host to not only rural ways of living but also history embedded in large houses and mansions built by or for leading lights of the es...