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Manchester Art Gallery and decolonisation: Has it been successful?

Manchester Art Gallery and decolonisation: Has it been successful?

In ‘Rethinking the Grand Tour’, Manchester Art Gallery tries to decolonise its pieces. After visiting, we explore whether it’s really made an impact
Black Lives Matter: Why better history education is so important

Black Lives Matter: Why better history education is so important

Serafina Kenny argues changing school curriculums is the best way to stamp out racism

Great British matriarchs

Colm Lock looks at how many of Britannia’s greatest rulers were, and continue to be, women

We should be neither proud nor regretful of the British Empire

In the 21st century there is no reason to attach pride or shame to an Empire that had nothing to do with us, instead we should be objective about our past

Why we can’t just ‘move on’ from the legacy of slavery

Lower prosperity, lower educational attainment and higher suspicion. The legacy of slavery is still very much with us in our society today, writes Kyle Huggins