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Black History Month: Interview with key lecturer Dr Keith Magee

by • 19th October 2020

Katherine Lovell interviews Dr Keith Magee, visiting professor of Social Justice from UCL about the main event for this year’s Black History Month. He will deliver a lecture on...

British Women in the Liberation of Frederick Douglass

by • 23rd October 2019

As part of the university's 'Insights' public lectures series, Professor Leigh Fought - associate professor of history at Le Moyne College in Syracuse - gave a lecture celebrating...

New building honours slave abolitionist

by • 23rd September 2019

A £35 million Newcastle University building is set to be named after 1800s anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass. Douglass, thought to have been born in 1818, was born into...