How the University of Edinburgh helped create scientific racism – podcast

Will the University of Edinburgh confront its dark past? Severin Carrell reports

The University of Edinburgh has released a report examining its 400-year history and its connections to slavery, colonialism and the development of scientific racism.

The Guardian’s Scotland editor, Severin Carrell, explains to Nosheen Iqbal how these findings will lead to a lot of soul-searching about how this centre of the Scottish Enlightenment should now be understood.