Opening a symposium on Robin Blackburn’s The Reckoning, a probing examination of political agents and structuring conditions behind the late overthrow of slavery in the American South, Cuba and Brazil ...

Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings ... and Black blood associated with ...

Mercantilism brought about many acts against humanity, including slavery ... of colonial business. Much of the trade that took place before the mid-17th century was controlled by the Spanish ...

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the ...

Two novels set in Japanese colonial period In the shadow of Japan's colonial rule over Korea from 1910 to 1945, two ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Every year, the Indigenous people of Guanajuato celebrate El Señor de la Conquista, a festival of conquest. Is there more than meets the eye?

Nelson was criticised by Black Lives Matter activists for alleged personal support of slavery, while Drake was targeted for ...

Katie Sampeck, a historian at the University of Reading, explores chocolate's cultural history, tracing its origins from ancient Amazonian cultivation ...

Nigel Biggar, CBE, is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and author of the bestselling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2024). He ...