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Long Read: Returning heritage Filed on April 30, 2021 | Last updated on April 30, 2021 at 10.12 am Gifted, looted or stolen — Britain has a large number of priceless artefacts from India, other former colonies and elsewhere. but now, some are on their way back home as demands grow Stepping into India House in central London is like stepping back in time. Designed by the legendary architect Herbert Baker and inaugurated by King George V in 1930, the home of India’s high commission is a blend of change and continuity, with paintings, portraits, busts, artefacts and symbols of modern...

Zombie moss? Our list of six really long-lived Earth organisms Daniel Martins mardi, 9 juillet 2019 à 20:27 - A story making the rounds this week gives an idea of just how long lifeforms on Earth can live if given the chance. Apparently, not even being buried beneath a glacier for a couple of centuries can 100 per cent guarantee the death of a hardy patch of moss. Not in the Arctic, at least. A story published in the Washington Post this week, ostensibly about how organisms long thought dead are returning to life as glaciers and permafrost melt, features just such a moss. Recovered from Ell...

The National Trust has ordered all of its volunteers to undergo diversity training as the organisation continues its 'woke' rebrand. The heritage body is forcing everyone, including rangers who do not work with the public, to carry out the training as they return to work from lockdown. It has already caused friction among volunteers and led to several resignations, with one slamming the Trust's new political 'agenda'. The National Trust has ordered all of its volunteers to undergo diversity training as the organisation continues its 'woke' rebrand The 'everyday inclusion' training is run onli...

“Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hands on the throat of Venice,” observed the 15th century explorer Tome Pires. Within his lifetime, his native Portugal and rival Spain would effectively divide the world between themselves under the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. The treaty sanctioned Portuguese conquest of countless ports across the Indian Ocean while Spain devoured those in the Pacific. Over the next half a millennium, a constellation of tiny European kingdoms reigned supreme across the vast Asian continent, placing their voracious hands on the throat of once mighty empires in the Ea...

ONE of Powys' most historic buildings features in a National Trust report about links to colonialism and slavery. The interim report titled 'The Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust' was first published last September. Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable, Head Curator, National Trust said: "From the sixteenth century, merchants had sought increasingly to consolidate their socio-economic and political status by acquiring country estates and marrying their children into the landed classes. "From the mid-eighteenth century until the abolition of slavery...