decolonisation
Coloniality and the ‘aid bubble’: Can language be a driver for change?
Who was Giulia de Medici? Finding a Black presence in Renaissance Florence
Legacies of empire: Through the voice of war veteran Isaías
Early activists in the fight for restitution of African art
In this post, history researcher Dario Willi takes us back to a catalytic moment in the art restitution movement, when the Ghanaian filmmaker Nii Kwate Owoo publicised the innumerable artworks and artefacts languishing in the British Museum, after their removal from source communities in a context of colonial domination.
The end of self-delusion? Challenging slavery’s heritage in Spain and Catalonia
Catalonia’s merchants and towns profited hugely from the transatlantic slave trade after it was banned in the nineteenth century, as history researcher Adrià Enríquez Àlvaro documents. The good news is the recent movements to critique and reverse official amnesia, regarding public history and monuments.