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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

SLAVERS

... Ei\IPEIW H. 1-J.\ Iu : S:\L,\SSIE'S recent announcement tint he will try to abolish slavery in his dominions is a reminder that Ei\IPEIW H. 1-J.\ I u recent an- will slavery sti ll exists in the world. l t is one of those immemorial things that go back and ...

Published: Friday 10 October 1941
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1889 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

APRIL e

... selection of watercolour and printed envelopes advertising theatrical shows or products, including one which promotes anti-slavery. (Clockwise from top) 1912; 1884; Henry Edwards (1859-1918), who rates so little notice in the reference books that this sale ...

Published: Thursday 26 April 1990
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 518 | Page: 119 | Tags: none

Runnymede

... eld and made to 0 Yes, but that's a little different, Dicky. This is freedom from waste and useless work. Freedom from the slavery of carrying coals and laying fires. Freedom from kitchen grates that won't cook. Freedom from clean· ing out sooty flues and ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1926
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 450 | Page: 51 | Tags: none

THE IRREPRESSIBLE BEECHERS

... e gifts and aspirations reached their s ummit in H arriet Her book, which did more to kill slavery than Beecher Stowe. Her book, which did more to kill slavery than any other single circumstance in the world, was no fortuitous event: it vvas the crowning ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1935
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1626 | Page: 47 | 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

DAMAGES OF 1500 FOR LIBEL

... driver, of Longburst-road. Lewisham. The jury found that he was libelled in an article in April, 1962, concerning an alleged slavery racket involving Pakistan immigrants and some London taxi drivers. dui!salient WA% intend with cost arninot the NPWA 41 the ...

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

By the author of Elizabeth Fry John Woolman -Quaker JANET WHITNEY The life story of a New England Quaker whose

... settled in New Jersey. John Woolman made several journeys through the new colonies and was deeply concerned with the problem of slavery. His Journal is still read on both sides of the Atlantic. He came twice to England : on his second visit he died at York in ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1943
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 532 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

326 Church taken from a low-flying German aeroplane. It was sent out as part of the Kaiser's propaganda in order

... crime which is unheard of in modern military annals, and that was to carry off three hundred of the inhabitants to practical slavery. COUNTRY LIFE. SCULPTURED FIGUHES ON ST. '\IAR'I'IN'S CHUHCII. [Oct. 19th, 1918. Dr. SoH says that the work of destruction ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1918
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 680 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

CONTENTS

... Burmy); .. Standing Martingales (Lieut.-Colonel M. F. M cTaggarl ); Bull P1·ogs; The ]\!fango Tree Trich (R. B. Burmy); Slavery in Africa (E. Brown); London Bridge at Giliwell Fine Feathers Parh ; Early Birds (J. Phillips Davies) ; Fine Feathers (L. ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1923
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 560 | Page: 2 | Tags: none