13th July 2020 - The Glasgow Guardian



How We Moved the Goalposts (Part One): Bringing Scotland’s role in slavery to the fore

13th July 2020

Briony Farrell Writer In a three-part series, Guardian contributor Briony Farrell ties her research into female beneficiaries of the Atlantic Slave Trade with discussions centred on historical erasure and reform of the school curriculum. The Black Lives Matter movement has rapidly gained momentum in recent weeks, with the world responding in outrage at the tragic ...


How We Moved the Goalposts (Part Two): Women and the plantation economy

13th July 2020

Briony Farrell Writer In a three-part series, Guardian contributor Briony Farrell ties her research into female beneficiaries of the Atlantic Slave Trade with discussions centred on historical erasure and reform of the school curriculum. There is a tendency to focus on the history of Scotland as a country built and defended by a series of ...


How We Moved the Goalposts (Part Three): Curriculum reform with Nelson Mundell

13th July 2020

Briony Farrell Writer In a three-part series, Guardian contributor Briony Farrell ties her research into female beneficiaries of the Atlantic Slave Trade with discussions centred on historical erasure and reform of the school curriculum. As public awareness of Scotland’s dark colonial past begins to grow, the holes in our school curriculum have become ever more ...


White Riot: A Look Back at Rock Against Racism

13th July 2020

Jodie Leith Music Columnist Music Columnist Jodie Leith examines the Rock Against Racism movement of the 70s, and how its indelible legacy mirrors the Black Lives Matter movement and current world affairs today.  “We peeled away the Union Jack to reveal the swastika” – Red Saunders, founder of Rock Against Racism. Britain in the 1970s ...


Comparing the coronavirus response worldwide

13th July 2020

As coronavirus cases in Europe have begun to drop and countries have started emerging from lockdown, we can retrospectively evaluate the different tactics used all over the globe to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. The success of these tactics is key, as some scientists now warn of a potential second wave.  On 11 March 2020 the ...