Who was “The Grand Old Duke of York”?
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 […]
Month: July 2021
A steam ship in the City of London
There are quite a number of ‘Holland Houses’ in the capital – the remains of a Jacobean country home in Holland Park, Kensington; a school […]
Ottobah Cugoano – an 18th century freed slave and abolitionist
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 […]