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Councillor Abigail Marshall Katung, Lord Mayor of Leeds, and poet Khadijah Ibrahim view the plaque

Blue plaque highlights anti-slavery history of Leeds

Published
2 October 2024
Categories
University
Arts & Culture
Research

Campaigners who were at the forefront of the global movement to abolish slavery, including Wilson Armistead, are being honoured at the University of Leeds.

Etching of the Royal Exchange, showing the courtyard and people socialising within it.

Multilingual gossip in Elizabethan London

Published
25 September 2024
Categories
Arts & Culture
Research

Stranger churches in early modern London had ‘eyes everywhere’ to hear, spread and dispel gossip in multiple languages, according to new research.

An elderly person wearing a headscarf, ill in bed

Muslims felt excluded from health policies during COVID-19

Published
30 August 2024
Categories
Coronavirus
Health
Research

People from diverse backgrounds must be included in the development of healthcare policies to ensure all groups' needs are met, new research into palliative care for the Muslim community has found.