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When Hanwell was run by Slaveowners
In our last post we discussed the ongoing and intertwined links of the ownership of landed estates in England, the process of enclosure that concentrated the land in fewer hands, the massive profits some rich families made from the slave trade and owning slaves on Caribbean plantations, and the continuing networks of wealth power and…
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Enclosure, the Slave trade, Wealth: from Cirencester Park to the Charborough Estate
Jamaican-born Black revolutionary Robert Wedderburn, writing in ‘The Axe Laid to the Root’, his series of open agitational letters urging Caribbean slaves to revolt against their ‘owners’ in 1817, urged the slaves among who he had been born, to not only overthrow their masters, but to then keep hold of the land they worked. He…
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Today in London art history, 2001: William Blake vs GlaxoSmithKline
Report of a 2001 action at the Tate Britain Gallery in London, against a William Blake exhibition sponsored by the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. On the final day (11 February 2001) of the William Blake exhibition at the Tate Britain Gallery in London, 30 people gathered on the steps outside to reclaim Blake from ‘the dead…
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Today in London military history, 1919: ex-soldiers fight police outside Parliament
“There was this afternoon, unfortunately, a somewhat serious situation as between a procession of discharged soldiers and sailors and the police. I cannot agree for a moment that the cause of the unfortunate situation was the lack of employment, or the lack of work, or that it had anything to do with it, or had…
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