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Hace 4 días · Many were toppled, including a statue of the English slave trader Edward Colston, which was torn down and throw into the canal in Bristol, his birthplace. Video footage of the incident went viral, sparking renewed debate over the memorialising of figures with such violent legacies.
Hace 5 días · Seventy years ago, a musical opened at the Bristol Old Vic which would go on to take the West End by storm and prove a nice little earner for the Old Vic Theatre School and a nice big earner for ...
Hace 3 días · Located on 7 Great George Road, The Georgian House Museum explores what a Bristol sugar plantation and slave owner's home might have looked like around 1790. The house was built in 1790 for John Penney, a West India sugar merchant and slave plantation owner, and designed by Bristol architect, William Paty. The grade II listed building was also home to the freed slave Frances Coker who was a ...
Hace 1 día · Map of Meridian Line set under the Treaty of Tordesillas The Slave Trade by Auguste François Biard, 1840. The Atlantic slave trade is customarily divided into two eras, known as the first and second Atlantic systems. Slightly more than 3% of the enslaved people exported from Africa were traded between 1525 and 1600, and 16% in the ...
Hace 1 día · In just over 152 pages of text the author not only covers the main features of the Dutch slave trade, but also provides a succinct discussion of the impact of the trade as a whole, and even finds space to enter into the contentious arena of moral judgements and imputed guilt.
Hace 2 días · The first ever theatre production in the Tobacco Factory is their A Journey to Bristol – a short 18th Century comedy set in the city and performed in promenade around the whole building. Not put off by the lack of available running water, electricity, heating or seating, Show of Strength continue to put on work and develop the venue for over five years.
Hace 2 días · The British Empire and the slave trade were not responsible for the United Kingdom’s prosperity, according to new research from the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free market think tank. This analysis comes amid a renewed debate about Britain's colonial legacy sparked by comments from Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch.
