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Executed in 1587, the tragic Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.
Trouble just seemed to follow her around.
Cut paper collage ©Amanda White

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2020-02-08

Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was the unofficial leader of the abolitionist movement in Britain. With the London Committee, he lobbied Parliament for 2 decades to pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ending the transatlantic slave trade in the

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2019-08-23

John Blanke was a 16C black trumpeter in the royal courts. John is thought to be shown here in the Westminster Tournament Roll - a 60ft long illustrated manuscript of Henry VIII’s extravagant pageant held to mark the birth of his male child

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2019-08-05

“...to truly understand the American outlook in the 18th Century, it is necessary to learn about the British conflicts of the 17th Century - especially the English Civil War.”
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Learn more in Ch 19: The (follow link in bio)
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2019-06-29

Loving the for the start of

It's Mary Prince's 230th birthday - the first woman to publish a slave narrative in Britain

Just one of the many texts we study on the MA in

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2018-10-02

1942: 45 technicians from Jamaica & Bahamas arrived in Bolton to work in wartime factories (& were welcomed with a civic reception)

Read a report about their work & conditions (by a West Indian visitor from the ILO) at https://t.co/4URUQGqcfr

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2018-06-19

CELTIC QUEEN SETS FIRE TO LONDON https://t.co/xIhnaOkPEw from Timeline of British History

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2016-03-02