Le Royaume-Uni face à son passé : plongée dan...

« Il faut être humble : c’est un semi-succès et un semi-échec. » A l’issue du conseil des ministres du lundi 19 janvier, Sébastien Lecornu a commenté en ces termes sa décision de recourir à l’article 49.3 de la Constitution sur la partie recettes du budget de l’Etat. Un « semi-éc ...  Show more

Les Frères musulmans vont une fois de plus faire l’objet d’un débat, jeudi 22 janvier, au sein même de l’Assemblée nationale. Le groupe Les Républicains (LR) va soumettre au vote des députés une résolution visant à inscrire cette mouvance de l’islam politique sur la liste europée ...  Show more

It wasn't until recently that researchers working in the national archive in London discovered the extent to which ordinary people in Britain had been involved in the slave trade in the 18th and early 19th century. Louise Hidalgo has been talking to Dr Nick Draper, who uncovered ...  Show more

The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 was an uprising of over ten thousand enslaved people in the Crown colony of Demerara-Essequibo (now part of Guyana) on the coast of South America. Having grown tired of their servitude, the enslaved sought to resist in the most direct way they co ...

The trans-Atlantic slave trade expanded greatly in the 18th century, growing from a relatively small enterprise to a global business that saw millions of African people clapped in irons, forced to undergo the tortuous Middle Passage and then sold at market in the Americas. Speaki ...  Show more

In the mid-17th Century, Britain dominated the Slave Trade, shipping over 3 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. Conditions on board slave ships were inhumane, and large numbers of enslaved men, women, and children died en-route. However, during the 18th and early 19th ...  Show more