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The Guardian commissioned historians to investigate its founders and their connections to the slave trade. This is what they found
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The Guardian commissioned historians to investigate its founders and their connections to the slave trade. This is what they found
In 2020, the Scott Trust commissioned an academic review into the founding of the Guardian in 1821 by John Edward Taylor and his financial backers. That investigation is now complete, and here we present the findings, along with the trust’s response