Netherlands returns 119 Benin bronzes, redressing 1897 British expedition looting
In recent years, about 1,100 objects from German, Scottish, British, and French museums have been returned amid pressure over ...
The Netherlands agrees to return more than 100 artifacts to Nigeria looted during colonial times
The Netherlands has agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their ...
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The hero of the Battle of Great Bridge was a sentry who took on an entire British platoon. He was also a free Black man.
History remembers Flora as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an onslaught of volleys, he fired multiple ...
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Colonial amnesia: Why West Africa remembers differently
The legacy of colonialism is a deeply complex and often painful subject, evoking different emotions and memories depending on ...
Hopes for water voles as new colonies discovered
New colonies of the UK's fastest declining mammal species have been discovered in the uplands of south Wales. Usually found ...
Descendants of Holocaust survivors mark 76th anniversary of Cypriot internment camps' closure
Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one ...
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The two ex-British colonies that now use dollars instead of pounds
Two ex-British colonies ditched the Pound Sterling as their currency for one simple reason. The Pound had been the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial ...
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Inside a Colonial-Style New York Home With British and Scandi Inspirations
The 20-year-old Colonial-style three-bedroom isn’t her ... look that combines some of the color and pattern both of British country houses and of mid-20th-century Swedish interiors.