Voices of Resistance exposes how 19th century British postal services profited from and enabled transatlantic trafficking of ...

A 'promenade' play taking place at one of the country's best loved museums is to tackle the difficult issue of its own links with the slave trade. The performance of ‘This Accursed Thing’ is a product ...

The University of Cambridge is facing strong criticism from academics over an exhibition that claims Professor Stephen ...

The best of London for free. Sign up for our email to ... You might think The Postal Museum’s focus is centred just on UK affairs, but its new exhibition will turn its gaze to the lives of ...

Museum displays which have become “completely dominated” by the issue of slavery have been blasted as “humdrum” by a top ...

slave-ship surgeons and others were among those supplying specimens to Sloane and others. Many of the collections built by other men ultimately ended up with Sloane. He amassed a large fortune and ...

One of the featured themes is the history of ice-cream making, another the little-known trade in ice imported from Norway and once stored in two huge wells beneath the museum. London Canal Museum ...

The post-world war history of the UK and London is an important influence when understanding the political economy of development, global trade and international power structures. Britain’s legacy as ...

A major London museum was evacuated after a visitor brought suspected WW2 “ordnance” into the site. The Imperial War Museum in Kennington, which houses a large number of WW2 objects ...

The announcement of Jeremy O Harris’ West End run of Slave Play was greeted with equal measures of glee and trepidation. What would London make of this controversial play that, while on Broadway, ...

In fact, many travelers say it's the best museum in all of London. What's more, it's free to visit. From the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Sculptures to Mesopotamian objects, the British Museum ...