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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: Kew Gardens to turn over a new leaf on its plants’ links to slavery and empire

Temperate House at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew

(Picture: PA)

Welcome back to today’s Londoner’s Diary. First up Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are planning to change their display information on plants such as sugar cane to reflect their links to empire and slavery, as they publish a ten year manifesto for change. Later on we learn Richard Dawkins is braving the world of fiction with a novel about a battle to reconstruct a three million-year-old genome and we hear from Diane Abbott who is in the process of writing her memoirs about becoming the first black female MP in the UK.

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