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

Mark Carney était inconnu du grand public canadien il y a encore deux ans. Mais la démission de son prédécesseur, le très médiatique Justin Trudeau, a changé la donne et a permis à cet ancien banquier de devenir Premier ministre du Canada. Et cela en dépit de la mauvaise passe qu ...  Show more

Le cessez-le-feu entre l’Iran et les Etats-Unis, dans la guerre qui les oppose depuis le 28 février 2026, devait durer quinze jours. Il s’est transformé en cessez-le-feu à durée indéterminée, le temps que les deux parties se mettent d’accord ne serait-ce que pour revenir à la tab ...  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