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Rhondalyn Peairs explaining the significance of Barnard Observatory to tour participants. Photo by Tanissa Ringo In celebration of Women’s History

We take a look at what was making the news in Stamford, Rutland, Bourne and the Deepings up to 200 years ago.

(Photo: PA/ Unknown author, Wikimedia Commons) THE COUNTY OF WORCESTERSHIRE has a lot of links and ties to the tragedy of the Titanic. The anchor ship itself was made in Worcestershire and a lot of former Worcestershire residents also boarded the ship. One such passenger was Francis Millet who met his tragic demise on the ship when it sunk in 1912. While he was born and bred in America, he did spend some of his later years in Broadway in the Cotswolds living with his family. Early life Francis was the son of a surgeon, born in Massachusetts in 1846. Before becoming a painter, he f...

Filed in African-American History on January 13, 2021 The University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group began as a 2013 book club. The membership included faculty and administrators. Seven years later, the expanded group that includes members from 17 academic departments continues to seek to expand knowledge of the history of enslaved people on the university’s campus So far, the group has been able to name and identify only 11 enslaved people who labored on the campus. The Lyceum is now the oldest building on campus. When it was constructed in the 1840s, slave labor was used. Minutes o...

University of Mississippi professors research legacy of slavery at state’s flagship university OXFORD — Five University of Mississippi professors, along with local community organizations and other campus partners, are exploring the history and impact of slavery at the university and in the Oxford community. The University of Mississippi Slavery Research Group (UMSRG) started as a 2013 book club consisting of several faculty and administrators where they read and discussed historian Craig Steven Wilder’s book, “Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Univ...