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St Helena

July 2024

  • A Story of Bones still shows a person looking out to see from the island

    A Story of Bones review – the battle to right Saint Helena’s colonial wrongs

    This moving story documents the long struggle to bury the mass remains of Africans who were ‘liberated’ from the slave trade in a way that memorialises the island’s past

April 2024

  • A close up from the UK in an 1875 map; previously enslaved people work in a cotton field on Saint Helena Island; the ship MS Tourmaline.

    The monumental shame of Britain’s role in the slave trade before, during and after abolition

    Letters: Dr Richard Carter says London was at the heart of the system, Austen Lynch points out the shame cast on our history and Gary Cornwell argues that the trade only ended because capitalism found it inefficient

March 2024

  • A historical map overlayed on modern New York

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Sites of resistance: threatened African burial grounds around the world

  • Slave revolt in Jamaica from 1832, and a British West African Squadron war ship from 1827

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    It’s not unpatriotic to tell the whole truth about Britain and the end of slavery

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

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    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary

  • A person in a hi-vis jacket walking away from the camera towards a large dirt mound or hill

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Scraping away generations of forgetting: my fight to honour the Africans buried on St Helena

September 2023

  • St Helena

    Wolf spider discovered on St Helena already endangered

    Wildlife under threat from habitat loss on remote British Overseas Territory

July 2021

  • A 1843 painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse depicts Napoleon Bonaparte on his deathbed.

    From the Guardian archive
    The death of Napoleon Bonaparte – archive, 1821

    7 July 1821: News arrives of former emperor’s death on the British island of St Helena, on 5 May 1821

June 2021

  • Jamestown, the capital of St Helena.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: the mild climate of St Helena, Napoleon’s last place of exile

    About two-thirds of the way across the ocean from South America to Africa, the island has a temperate, oceanic climate

2 October 2020

  • Migrants trying to reach the UK cross the Channel in a dinghy.

    Asylum plans should fill Tories with deep shame

    Letters: Readers respond to government’s proposals to process migrants seeking refuge in the UK in detention facilities overseas or on disused ferry boats

1 October 2020

  • Documents suggest the government has for weeks been working on ‘detailed plans’ that include cost estimates of building asylum detention camps on Ascension Island.

    Government offshore asylum idea attacked as 'morally bankrupt'

  • Home secretary Priti Patel

    The Guardian view on asylum policy: nasty, brutish and wrong

  • A Border Force vessel with people rescued from the Channel in August 2020.

    UK asylum: the offshore options officials were told to consider

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Boris's Brexit and Covid incompetence spreads to infect asylum policy

    John Crace

  • UK asylum detention: top civil servant says 'all options on the table'

  • Guardian morning briefing
    Thursday briefing: Downing Street push to send asylum seekers abroad

September 2020

  • Australian-run accommodation for refugees on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

    Australian-style offshore asylum plan driven by No 10

  • Ascension island in the south Atlantic.

    Revealed: No 10 explores sending asylum seekers to Moldova, Morocco and Papua New Guinea

  • Migrants on board HMC Seeker after being intercepted in the English Channel by border force on September 22. Boris Johnson’s spokesman said the UK was planning to reform the system to deter people ‘from making life-threatening journeys’.

    UK is looking at processing asylum claims overseas, No 10 suggests

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    Priti Patel looked at idea of sending asylum seekers to South Atlantic

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