Slavery Abolition

Thursday 08 January 2026 3:53 pm  |   Updated:  Thursday 08 January 2026 4:05 pm Oh, Mary! plays at the Trafalgar Studios until 25 April Oh, Mary! review and star rating: ★★ Historical revisioning – storytelling that presents key parts of history in new and often fantastical ways –  has become…

If they haven’t already, many Australians will soon head off for summer holidays. But behind every smooth check-in, cocktail or airport gate smile is one of more than an estimated 270 million tourism workers – about 8.2% of the global workforce. These workers – cleaners, cooks, waiters, porters and cabin…

Kelly Ng and Mir Sabbir, Editor, BBC News Bangla Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh's first female prime minister and an arch-rival of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina, has died from a prolonged illness. She was 80 years old. Zia intended to run for parliament in February, when the country will vote for the…

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Asylum seekers are not abusing the modern slavery system in a widespread manner, according to a report from a centre-right thinktank that undermines statements from successive home secretaries. The report from Bright Blue finds limited evidence that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to have been the victims of modern slavery…

In the grand tradition of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Hamnet is a re-imagining of a historical figure to impute speculative motives on them. The film charts the relationship of Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) from their first meeting to the death of their son Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe).…

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script written by Charles Dickens during the American Civil War raises the possibility he may also have understood the story as speaking to the cause of ending slavery in the US. First…

Updated : , ,   ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation’s only Black governor — that disappointed many fellow Democrats. Moore said in his veto…

Graffiti shows drug prices in the southern French city of Marseille - Copyright AFP/File Miguel MEDINA Sandra Laffont They work as drug dealers, but the notes they slip to customers in drug baggies begging for help — and their pleas to the police — tell a very different story. Hundreds…

This month marks the 160th anniversary of the ratification of the  13 th  Amendment , which permanently ended slavery in the United States. The Amendment was passed by Congress in January of 1865 but only became part of the Constitution  when three quarters of the states  voted to finally close an ugly…