Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Abolition”
Up until yesterday I am pretty sure not many people had heard of Edward Colston. Then on Sunday afternoon, protestors in Bristol took part in non-violent direct action and removed his statue from its plinth and threw it in the river. Some cheered, others complained. Those that cheered, did so because the statue stood as a reminder of some of …
I recently discovered something new whilst reading David Olusoga’s Black and British: A Forgotten History. It concerns William Wilberforce and another man called George Hibbert. These two men lived opposite each other on Clapham Common and worshipped together at Holy Trinity on the North side of the common which had strong evangelic roots. If you visit the church today you …
This post was written for Sunday@thePub and can be found here. This first post on prophets and influencers is on Granville Sharp. I am going to assume that not many people know who he is, but out of interest you could respond with a ? or ? below if you know or don’t know, and haven’t used the internet or …
Here then is my first post in the series ‘Things they didn’t teach me at school!’ One of the points raised in Akala’s book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire – The Sunday Times Bestseller and one that I have seen raised elsewhere, is that much of the history we are taught in school is extremely one-sided. …