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Should we blame our ancestors for slavery when we’re equally culpable?

15 January 2022 9:00 am

The premise of White Debt is that the author’s ancestors ran a business selling a product grown by slaves. Therefore…

HMS Agamemnon lays the first Atlantic telegraph cable between Trinity Bay and Valentia Island

The 1850s: a dizzying decade of boom and bust

26 March 2016 9:00 am

We can all identify decades in which the world moved forward. Wars are not entirely negative experiences: the social and…