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Last modified on Wed 21 Apr 2021 14.24 EDT City, University of London is to rename its business school after the 18th-century nonconformist theologian and mathematician Thomas Bayes after ditching the name of Sir John Cass, a merchant who made much of his fortune from the slave trade. The university stripped the Cass name from its campus last summer after students raised concerns in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. City’s president, Prof Sir Paul Curran, said: “The renaming of the business school marks the ...

CITY, University of London has picked a new name for its business school, ending a 20-year association with Sir John Cass, a Georgian merchant and politician who profited from the slave trade. Last July, the Cass business school promised to change its name as part of its commitment to addressing issues of inequality. The school said yesterday that, from September, the school will be named after 18th-century mathematician Thomas Bayes, with the choice motivated by his theorem that “we get closer to the truth by constantly updating our beliefs in proportion to the weight of new evidence.”...

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In Taksim Square, the busy central hub of Istanbul, a large, viril monument stands. In the centre is Mustafa Kemal Attaturk, the father of modern Turkey (although, perhaps not the contemporary one). When Attaturk came into power, he immediately set about changing the country from Empire to Nation. This meant progressive Western values, the alphabet; a dismissal, in some cases, a blanketing of the culture and customs before it. Almost by accident, this sparked a nostalgia for the Empire that is potent in today’s Turkey. In the hotel nearby, the Kurdish receptionist gets to work. ‘Did you s...

Published: 5:00 PM February 22, 2021    Updated: 11:44 AM February 23, 2021 The Cassland Gardens sign was removed on December 5, 2020 and can now be viewed in Hackney museum as an educational artifact. - Credit: Wayne Crichlow Hackney people are being invited to help rename a green space in their borough by voting for one of four shortlisted choices.  The former Cassland Road Gardens was named after Sir John Cass, director of the Royal African Company, who profited from the transatlantic slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. The change comes as part of Hackney Council's Review, ...