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Family Mysteries

Like many Americans, genealogy has been a keen interest of mine. I've had a good sense of where my family came from — Spain on my father's side and the British Isles on my mother's. But what I knew was only part of the story. And this Sunday, May 20th, what I subsequently learned will be aired on the PBS series "Finding Your Roots."

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The historical genealogy of the names of some of the places in Trinidad and Tobago and the possible need for changing current nomenculture was examined by senior Research Fellow, Professor Brinsley Samaroo at a forum on March 27 hosted by the UTT Academy of Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs at its campus at the National Academy for the Performing Arts. The forum was entitled Retaining ...

Young historians 'are damaging academia' in their bid for stardom

Young history academics are too eager to convert their research into books that have only a slim chance of success in an increasingly crowded market, according to the chief judge of a leading history writing prize.

Text: Lord Alton gives Tyburn Lecture on 'What price faith?'

In this year's Tyburn Lecture, Lord Alton said ... we who have voices must be prepared to use them and our freedoms to speak for those who have none - and who face the ordeal of Tyburn each day of their lives: “In the end” as Dr King said: “we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

WAR OF 1812: Blood ties

DNA testing aims to link blood on 200-year-old jacket to modern-day descendant