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Month: July 2021

Who was “The Grand Old Duke of York”?

31/07/2021 donbrown 0

A couple of hundred metres from the much more famous Nelson’s column you will find the slightly more senior Duke of York’s Column (Nelson was […]

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A steam ship in the City of London

29/07/2021 donbrown 0

There are quite a number of ‘Holland Houses’ in the capital – the remains of a Jacobean country home in Holland Park, Kensington; a school […]

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Ottobah Cugoano – an 18th century freed slave and abolitionist

29/07/2021 donbrown 0

Much of the narrative on the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire is framed by the actions of the white British campaigners […]

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