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... 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

Richard Adams Daniel

... Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce to speak out against slavery. The novel “packs a powerful narrative punch”, says D J Taylor. Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery Act. Distribution by Central Books ...

Published: Friday 18 August 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

grandfather’s interest in family history—a history that goes back to Ghana and the slave trade 200 years before ..

... their time in bringing the evils of slavery to public attention. This book is a salutary reminder of how much wealth in the West was built on such cruel history—and food for thought over present-day areas of slavery and exploitation. - L 4 0, | v ) The ...

Published: Friday 16 February 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 354 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

Wilberforce books mark bicentenary

... Wilberforce books mark bicentenary Alison Bone Three new biographies of anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforceincluding one by former Conservative leader William Hague—will go head to head next spring, as publishers mark the bicentenary of the abolition ...

Published: Friday 22 December 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 419 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Crooked crooner

... few industries in history with fewer moral scruples than the Mafia , The Slavery Business series on BBC 2 opened with the powerful costume drama , How To Make a Million From Slavery . It starred Robert Pugh as Henry Lascelles , a corrupt , unscrupulous ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 2005
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 914 | Page: 14 | 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

to retrace the student boyfriend her mother persuaded her to dump, after everything else in her life has gone to

... with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Drawing on the author’s wider family history, it explores the life of Abiola, a clever young warrior in West Africa, captured and sold into slavery. There he becomes Cornelius, the property of a ...

Published: Friday 06 April 2007
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

Biographer winner in search of Barber

... boy born into slavery who became Samuel Johnson’s valet, secretary, friend and major heir to his estate. The organisers praised Bundock’s entry for “its elegant, authoritative writing and fascinating insights into opposition to slavery, inter-racial marriage ...

Published: Friday 05 September 2008
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 203 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Theatre

... prominent role in The Gem of the Ocean , chronologically the first of the ten , though it was the last but one to be written . Slavery is a living for most of the in the play , which takes place in 1904 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh , so often the location ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 2006
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 455 | Page: 24 | 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

RSC history project

... organisation based in Birmingham ) are running a joint education project to mark the 200 th anniversary of the abolition of slavery . Storytellers , dramatists , dancers and musicians will work with young South Asian and African Caribbean people aged between ...

Published: Thursday 28 June 2007
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Unheard voices anthology

... Unheard voices anthology Author Malorie Blackman has edited an anthology of stories and poems about slavery. Unheard Voices will be published by Random House Children’s Books in March to tie in with the commemoration of the bicentenary of the 1807 Abolition ...

Published: Friday 01 December 2006
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 47 | Page: 6 | Tags: none