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Slavery did exist in Britain, alas

... Slavery did exist in Britain, alas I THOROUGHLY agree with your Leader in the issue of 20 July, but I was amazed by your statement that slavery never existed in Britain. The Romans in Britain owned slaves. The Anglo Saxons and Normans had slaves (they ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 152 | Page: 131 | Tags: none

SAM WILBERFORCE, a physics teacher from Croydon, Surrey, is descended from WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, whose Abolition ..

... treatment of slaves 200 years ago, but often fail to realise that slavery is still with us in debt bondage, child labour, exploitation of homeworkers and human trafficking. Anti-Slavery International, of which I am a member, will be drawing special attention ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 2007
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 359 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

LOOK OUT FOR •••

... Bpm, August 8, Radio 4 Music: Handel's }eptha and Bach Cantatas, Dartington Festival, today and tomorrow Television: The Slavery Business: Sugar Dynasty, 9pm, August 10, BBC 2 Film: Michael Powell season at the NFT, through August COUNTRY LIFE • AUGUST ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 107 | Page: 81 | Tags: none

A CRIMINAL TOUR OF AMERICA

... A CRIMINAL TOUR OF AMERICA by Leslie Geddes-Brown Vanish by Tess Gerritsen (Bantam Press 2006): A dark tale of modern slavery starts when a Boston medical examiner discovers a body in a morgue is alive. The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke (Orion 2005): A ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 294 | Page: 111 | Tags: none

Century Galleries

... EXHIBITION SAT 4th- SAT 11th NOVEMBER 2000 Jehan Georges Vibert 1840 - 1902 L'Abolition de L'Esclavage (The Abolition of Slavery) Panel size: 25 by 19 75 QUEENS ROAD, WEYBRIDGE, SURREY KTI39UQ Telephone: 01932 846095/6 Fax: 01932 846095 email: enq ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 255 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

PERFORMING ARTS

... office: 0870 609 1110 70 COUNTRY LIFE • AUGUST 11, 2005 TELEVISION TREATS AMONG THE REPEATS ANTONY WOODWARD is compelled by The Slavery Business 0 NE of the more easily forgotten mementoes of the British slave trade was, of course, the country house. How many ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 999 | Page: 72 | Tags: none

St George's Hall: the extraordinary neo-Classical expression of Liverpool's mid-19th century pride, recently ..

... significant galleries devoted to the interpretation of slavery (Liverpool was Europe's largest slave port).lt is hoped to create a much-expanded Centre for the Understanding of Transatlantic Slavery by 2007, the bicentenary of the abolition of the British ...

Published: Thursday 11 November 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 770 | Page: 79 | Tags: none

A DAY AT DARTINGTON

... oil of its day: the bargaining chip of empire. Many of today's high-street financial institutions have their foundations in slavery, and Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow were virtually built on it. When abolition came, among the many receiving compensation ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1154 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

5--A compact 19th-century copper lave-m~~ins

... volunteers dried up, and slavery (which had been abolished in France in 1315 by Louis X) was introduced. Towards end of the 18th century, there were 90,000 slaves in Guadeloupe and 66,000 in Martinique-and when in 1794 slavery was abolished by the National ...

Published: Thursday 30 August 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1797 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

HE DREAMT HE DWELT IN MARBLE HALLS

... clothing is given the scholarty once-over. Were thry instruments for the oppression rif women, or a product rif feminine slavery to fashion (above)? The author uses literary 'The very HE DREAMT DREAMT HE DWELT DWELT IN MARBLE MARBLE HALLS young of this ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 640 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

Burying the myth of the Happy Hooker

... parliament that passed the legislation was nearly 50% women. It's no good saying that prostitution is the oldest profession. Slavery was an ancient institution, but a century ago it was abolished. I don't believe in the myth of the happy hooker, but I believe ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 2007
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 931 | Page: 89 | Tags: none

-TOUR GUIDE

... Usher of Lincoln, collecting his clocks, watches and coins, or WilJiam R oscoe, lawyer, poet, historian and radical anti-slavery campaigner, whose collection, bought by his friends after he went spectacularly bust, became the basis of the Walker Art Gallery ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1014 | Page: 119 | Tags: none