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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
