Background. The tragic transatlantic slave trade, which marked one of the darkest chapters in human history, lasted for 400 years, despite a spirited resistance by the millions of enslaved peoples ...

People throughout the UK have marked Remembrance Day with sombre ceremonies. LONDON. In pictures: Remembrance Day. In central London, at the first stroke of Big Ben at 11am, a single round fired from ...

Millions of people from every corner of the country paused at 11am as they marked 103 years since the first two-minute silence was observed on Armistice Day, November 11 1919.

As well as participating in Remembrance Day, the Defence Sikh Network holds a service at the Gravesend statue in September. "It coincides with the Battle of Britain and they wanted to have a ...

The UK shifted from Armistice Day to Remembrance Sunday at the end of WW2 in 1945, when it was decided that the dead from both wars would be commemorated on one day. However, ...

The first is on Remembrance Day (November 11) at 11am. However, as well as November 11, there is also a two-minute silence observed at 11am on Remembrance Sunday. Recommended reading: ...

The UK fell silent in tribute to service personnel who have died during conflicts, as part of the annual Remembrance Sunday service. A two-minute silence was observed, before the Queen laid the ...

A single day of remembrance would help to tie together the competing strands of memoralisation around this time of year, writes Mary Dejevsky – and help avoid awkward conflicts ...

Remembrance Day: British Asian pupils feel new sense of belonging after discovering ancestors’ war efforts ‘Now I know that it wasn’t just white British people, it was all of us’: Nadine ...

International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 25 March 2011 ... Background. Slave Ship Sighting an English Cruiser – 1874 Harpers Weekly ...