The backlash: how slavery research came under fire – podcast

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More and more institutions are commissioning investigations into their historical links to slavery – but the fallout at one Cambridge college suggests these projects are meeting growing resistance

Cambridge college to create fellowship to examine slavery links

Trinity academic to establish how college benefited from slave trade in move to achieve ‘reconciliation’

A University of Cambridge college is to appoint an academic to examine its legacies of slavery.

Trinity College, Cambridge, has announced that its new legacies of slavery research and teaching fellow will investigate the college’s links to the transatlantic slave trade.

Jason Arday to become youngest ever black professor at Cambridge University

Arday, 37, a sociologist, aims to inspire others from disadvantaged and under-represented backgrounds

A renowned sociologist who was unable to read or write until the age of 18, and was working part-time in Sainsbury’s less than eight years ago, is to become the youngest black professor ever appointed at the University of Cambridge.

Prof Jason Arday, 37, is a highly respected scholar of race, inequality and education, yet at three years old he was diagnosed with global development delay and autism spectrum disorder, and he did not learn to speak until he was 11.