How our founders’ links to slavery change the Guardian today

We ​ _________ the historians who had been commissioned by the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, to look into our past.

• were meeting

• were meet

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The Black Lives Matter movement ​ ______ unprecedented focus on racism in our societies, and it had ​ inspired the Guardian to look at itself.

• had put

• putted

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• putting

The Manchester Guardian ​_____ in 1821 in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre.

• was founded

• was found

• is founded

• were founded

We ​ (a)   this issue for more than two years.

• have been investigating

• have investigating

• have investigated

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I ​ _______ these questions at length with colleagues in recent months.

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It is absolutely right that we ​apologise for our past, as the Scott Trust ​_____ today.

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Over the next 12 months we ​ (a)   new reporting roles based in the Caribbean.

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• have created

There are stories that aren’t ______​ , and the Guardian is well placed to tell them.

• being told

• be told

• being telling