Amazon UK boss who warned of ‘civil unrest’ at a no deal Brexit is appointed new director of the Natural History Museum Douglas Gurr has been appointed as the new Natural History Museum director The British businessman will leave his role as Amazon UK chief later this year Amazon recently faced criticism for not doing … Read more
Dominic Raab has said Britons should not ‘airbrush our history’ as a Conservative former universities minister blamed ‘culture wars’ for the decision to remove a statue of slave-trader Cecil Rhodes outside Oxford University The statue of Cecil Rhodes is set to be removed after a vote from governors at Oriel College yesterday, following intense anger … Read more
The police killing of black man George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25 sparked outrage that has seen protests across the world denouncing police brutality, demanding change, and the end of systemic racism. Floyd’s death, unfortunately, is just one of a slew of police killings upon black men and women, including those who were … Read more
Sergeant E.J. ‘Jay’ Banks was a member of the Texas Rangers, who have patrolled the state for nearly 200 years after being formed in 1835. In 1956, Banks was dispatched to keep black children out of the white Mansfield High School, near Dallas, according to author Doug J Swanson. Backed by a court order, the … Read more
Author who discovered his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica after finding a box of centuries-old papers pens fascinating tome charting the history of their rum business which made the family rich Richard Atkinson uncovers the history of his ancestors in a new history book He was inspired after discovering a box revealing his family … Read more
The head of Twitter’s fact-checking team has previously tweeted that the Trump administration are Nazis, compared adviser Kellyanne Conway to Joseph Goebbels and said fly over states are racist. Yoel Roth, whose official title at Twitter is head of Site Integrity, faced backlash on Wednesday after his history of anti-Trump tweets emerged less than 24 hours after the … Read more
Human activity is destroying more than 50 billion years of evolutionary history, with the Caribbean and parts of Southeast Asia hit the hardest, researchers claim. The study, by the Zoological Society of London and Imperial College mapped the evolutionary history of the world’s land vertebrates including birds and mammals. An ever increasing ‘human footprint’ with … Read more
BBC4 history presenter Janina Ramirez says scrapping the channel will punish elderly viewers who rely on arts and culture shows BBC Four has fewer than a million viewers most nights with an average age in their 60s The channel is under threat of being closed or filled with repeats Dr Janina Ramirez said axing it would … Read more
Britain’s Got Talent’s The Noise Next Door ‘ALREADY have history with the show after writing the opening song for spin-off More Talent’ By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 00:53 BST, 24 May 2020 | Updated: 00:53 BST, 24 May 2020 Britain’s Got Talent act The Noise Next Door reportedly already had history with the show … Read more
HISTORY Coffeeland : A History By Augustine Sedgewick (Allen Lane £25, 448 pp) Have you ever scanned the blizzard of drinks on offer at your nearest Costa and thought, ‘I just want a cup of coffee’? If so, then maybe this book — more than 350 pages of dense political history of the erogenous little … Read more