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History & The Arts
Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
Keith Murrell, organiser of Cardiff’s iconic Butetown Carnival, explores its intricate past and bright future as a celebration of Butetown’s multicultural community, and addresses the injustices faced along the way.
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Money & Business
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
As part of Black History Month, Charles Barthold explores the connections between the management curriculum and coloniality.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics
As part of Black History Month, June Barrow-Green and Brigitte Stenhouse gave a presentation in which they explored how historical sources can be used to decolonise the mathematics curriculum.
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History & The Arts
Rastafari in Israel
Hilde Capparella, PhD student in Religious Studies at The Open University, explains her research on diasporic and transnational contexts of Rastafari in this article...
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History & The Arts
The ‘boundarylessness’ of African-Caribbean religions
How have Santeria, Vodou or Rastafari become global religions? Hilde Capparella, a PhD research student at The Open University, explores African-Caribbean traditions and religions in this article.
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History & The Arts
Subjugation and slavery: fake news in the nineteenth-century press
Fake news is not a new phenomenon. Pauline Brown explores this concept in relation to the portrayal of black people as the inferior race in nineteenth-century newspapers.
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History & The Arts
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
It’s estimated that 25% of the Roma pre-war European population perished as a result of Nazi persecution. This article explores the anti-Roma prejudice that still goes on today, and what can be done to tackle it.
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History & The Arts
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
Robert Clive, a general of the East India Company, was despised by his contemporaries – so why was a statue of him erected outside the foreign office by the Edwardians years later?
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History & The Arts
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
Paul-François Tremlett explains how Western representations of the Cargo Cults was in the contexts of colonialism, capitalism and racism in this video.
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History & The Arts
Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
Scotland’s first black professor, leading human rights activist and Open University honorary graduate, Prof Sir Geoff Palmer CD, shares his history and Scotland’s slavery history.
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History & The Arts
World-Changing Women: Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu worte the world's first novel, twice as long as War and Peace. Discover what is known about her life in this article...
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History & The Arts
World-Changing Women: Mary Prince
Mary Prince's published tale of violence at the hands of her owners had a great impact on anti-slavery campaigns, eventually bringing the slave trade abolishment. Read her remarkable history here...