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Slow off the mark with slavery

EVEN in the present news cycle, the has garnered coverage. The publication of anything thoughtful and informed on these emotive issues at present must be welcome, particularly as the Trust has been wrong-footed by the Black Lives Matter protests. When the director-general gave an interview to Radio 4’sin June, for example, she was cross-examined about material on the Trust’s website relating to Powis Castle. Athena has commented before about the website’s shortcomings and the text cited was both historically ignorant and embarrassing. It has since been changed.

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