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GLASGOW City Council is finally planning to permanently mark the city's links to the North Atlantic slave trade, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Calls have long been made for the city to do more to ...
In the current focus in your columns on the slave trade, little has been said of the input of Glasgow and the west of Scotland. The point has been made (Letters, March 28) that Britain as a whole ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A new report looking at Scotland's largest city's links to the slave trade has identified 62 Glasgow streets names or areas which have a ...
GLASGOW is on the brink of marking its role in the slave trade with a major commemoration of its past. Council leader Susan Aitken said they were poised to make an announcement in the near future ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald ... places around Glasgow that have ties to a legacy of human suffering and enslavement. Many of Glasgow's links to slavery are now invisible ...
Glasgow's role in the slave trade should be recognised in a Museum of Empire and Slavery, campaigners argue. Known as “the second city of the Empire”, Scotland's biggest city was a major ...
The leader of Glasgow council has called for the city to “step up and apologise” for profiting from slavery. Susan Aitken urged contrition after a new report exposed just how much money from ...