Muslim African slaves in America
Muslim African slaves in America had a different status to non-Muslim slaves often being put in supervisory roles and regarded as more cultivated
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Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new
There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this
Top history movie turkeys
Tony McMahon looks at the history movie turkeys that made a complete mess of depicting the past either through miscasting or a host of other sins
Murder of Jewish exiles in London – 700 years ago
King Edward I of England expelled Jewish people from his kingdom which resulted in a terrible mass murder in London as historian Tony McMahon discovers
London hated the French long before Brexit
Xenophobia in London is nothing new as Londoners hated the French two hundred years ago as Tony McMahon discovers
Corporate racism in the 1920s
A shocking example of vintage corporate racism with a 1923 Christmas card where African employees were treated as design accessories as Tony McMahon reports