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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In publishing his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Olaudah helped shape public opinion about the slave trade and he was instrumental in pushing for legislative ...