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"Not Your Victim" by Marie Kawthar Daouda: Book Review

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (276+ words) Dr Mark Stocker reviews Not Your Victim by Marie Kawthar Daouda, an intelligent and courageous critique of how modern identity politics, victimhood culture, and the decolonisation of the curriculum entrap and divide society. Trigger warnings and easily taking offence have…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > land-acknowledgement-critique-facts

Land Acknowledgement: What the History Actually Shows

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (290+ words) It has become customary in the Anglosphere to recognize native peoples as the first and true custodians of the land on which settlers and colonizers subsequently built. But how accurate is the presumption that the indigenous should take precedence over…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > the-gravest-crime-ghana-and-slavery

Indigenous African Slave Trade History: The Reparations Debate

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (416+ words) Site of the former Salaga Slave Market, northern Ghana The current King and Overlord of the Gonja Kingdom, Yagbonwura Bii-Kunuto Jewu Soale I Map of the Gonja Kingdom Sumaila Ndewura Jakpa established by conquest in the late 17th'century a loosely…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > history-curriculum-decolonisation-schools

Mindless: Decolonisation Is Rewriting History in Schools

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (347+ words) Dr. Bella d'Abrera, a founder of History Reclaimed, discusses her new book on the ideological indoctrination of children and young people in the school systems of the Anglosphere. Across the Anglosphere, a common pattern is emerging across our nations. History…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > slavery-reparations-icj-case

Slavery Reparations ICJ Case Explained

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (751+ words) The African Union is preparing a case, to be heard by the International Court of Justice, in which they will seek reparations for slavery from some of the nations that engaged in the slave trade. This will be a political…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > canadian-historical-education

Canadian Historical Education and the CIHE Mission

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (371+ words) In Canada as well as in Britain national history has been criticised and distorted in recent years. The Canadian Institute for Historical Education has been established to remedy the ignorance and bias that have given rise to attacks on some…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > british-monarchy-slavery-book-review

The Crown's Silence: Brooke N. Newman, 2026. Book Review

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (559+ words) This British monarchy slavery book review assesses The Crown's Silence by Brooke Newman, examining royal involvement in the slave trade, abolition and historical context. Brooke N. Newman, 2026. Harper Collins/Mudlark, 469 pages A Private of the 5th West India Regiment, 1812, in Charles Hamilton…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > benin-bronzes-repatriation-cambridge

Benin Bronzes Repatriation and Cambridge

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (342+ words) The University is sending back 116 Benin bronzes to the descendant of a slave-trading monarch Featured Image: A king and his ancestor's cock, returned in 2021 by Jesus College, Cambridge. Cambridge's Benin Bronzes are being handed over to the Oba." (This article…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > cecil-rhodes-a-critical-response-to-professor-william-beinart-2

Cecil Rhodes: a critical response to Professor William Beinart

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (401+ words) It is sometimes asserted that Cecil John Rhodes is a "problematical" figure. This was the case in his own lifetime, and it remains the case today. In fact, the doings of all important political actors are in some sense "problematical…...

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historyreclaimed. co. uk > on-the-right-side-of-history-or-self-indulgent-victimhood

The Myth of the "Right Side of History

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1270+ words) On the right side of history? Or self-indulgent victimhood? History Reclaimed Riddle me this: when is criminal damage not criminal? According to the judge, defence lawyers, and jury in the trial of the Colston Four the answer is when the…...

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