Rise Up at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge ­examines ­resistance to ­slavery. It is a welcome attempt to discuss how the ­university’s collection is still funded by slave trade money. It is an ...

The collection is presented on this page in chronological order, beginning with Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797) and ending with Malorie Blackman (born 1962). However, each of the films is 'stand ...

Documentary series exploring the abolition of Slavery in the British Dominions in 1833. In Episode 1 of this two-part documentary series, Luke Tomes explores the rebirth of an abolition movement in ...

She had been working on The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, about a man who was born in West Africa, enslaved in childhood, then transported to ...

A groundbreaking exhibition titled Communities of Liberation has opened its doors at Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel, ...

LGBT+ History Month was founded in 2004 after the ending of Section 28, a bill banning local authorities from ‘intentionally promoting homosexuality’, a deliberately vague statement designed to ...

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Punts floating serenely along, magnificent buildings sitting in the sunshine – that's the vision of the River Cam that makes ...

Sir George Carew, politician, diplomat and lawyer, was buried in St Margaret's Church Westminster on 14th November 1612, having died the day before of typhus in his house in Tothill Street. But he has ...

A vast painting by the British-Nigerian artist Joy Labinjo, depicting the 18th-century black campaigner Olaudah Equiano and his white wife (whom he probably met in Cambridge), with their young ...