Research has revealed that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSPC), once the largest British shipping company during the height of the empire, continued to use enslaved labor after the abolition ...

David Lammy’s flirtation with reparations is not only ill-advised but also counterproductive. Britain has already taken ...

Black culture has continuously been insulted throughout history. What was once seen as unacceptable is now embraced, ...

The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 didn’t just free 800,000 enslaved people — it set the precedent for global emancipation.

The often-forgotten contributions of Black Georgian and Victorian people will be told in an exhibition about the fight to end ...

I am convinced that the end of abortion as a business is in sight when our movement is not only joined by but led by the ...

The year is 1833, and Edmund Keane tops the theatrical A-list. Critics have even labeled him the "greatest actor of his ...

I now advocate we move away from ‘reform’ of the problem and towards building solutions outside of it. Speaking about prison abolition to women who have been in prison requires empathy and ...

The taxes needed to support such an expensive program would be onerous. And there is precedent for it: In 1833, the United Kingdom passed the Slavery Abolition Act across much of the British Empire.

William Gibbes Lane, same parents, baptised at St Marylebone 16/04/1791. Agnes Lane, same parents, baptised in St Michael 01/10/1796. Mary Elvira Lane of Sloane Street was buried at St Luke's Chelsea, ...

But how did the slave trade shape the art market in the Netherlands? And how is it reflected in the paintings of the time? This is the subject of a new book called Slavery and the Invention of ...