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Benedict Cumberbatch's family could be forced to pay reparations to Barbados for running a slave plantation on the island in the 18th and 19th century. When the plantation was forced to close his family were given £6,000 in compensation - in today's money that's £3.6million.

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Stop University of Chichester’s axing of the MRes History of Africa & the African Diaspora - Sign the Petition! chng.it/8gzsHYhR via Change.org UK

Stunning presentation by Akosua Paries-Osei on slavery, botany & the hidden voices of African women that underly so much of knowledge presented and contained in natural history museums like Natural History Museum, in our afternoon #ExplorersConference panel on reimagining the environmental sector.

NHM Botany Science at the Natural History Museum داکټر بلال حکیمی Mark Carine Towards a National Collection Arts and Humanities Research Council The Sloane Lab also includes researchers here at the Museum who are using the collection to re-examine past histories. Many of the plant specimens from Jamaica in Sloane's collections were likely gathered by enslaved men and women. Find out more: nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

A photo of Henrietta Lacks in the late 1940s. Henrietta's cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortal human cell line, one of the most ground-breaking and controversial scientific discoveries of the 20th century. #histmed #historyofmedicine

I still can’t quite believe this happened. What does it say about our society?

Professor Mashudu Tshifularo aus Südafrika ist der erste Chirurg auf der Welt, der erfolgreich eine Operation zur Heilung von Taubheit durchgeführt hat.

.African Taxonomists Network gets a shoutout at the SPNHC TDWG conference in Okinawa Japan! #Tdwg2024

Researcher, Akosua Paries-Osei studies this collection  ‘I research anti-fertility plants used by African women in Sloane's Vegetable substances collection. Enslaved women were valued for their ability to reproduce, restricting this capacity, directly resisted slavery’

📣New blog Monday: check out the MMoR website today for Akosua Paries-Osei's blog on Adultification and Sexualisation of West African Girlhood in John Ogilby’s Africa (1670) bit.ly/3FKJwsZ King's History