Slavery
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Peter McLagan (1823-1900): Scotland’s first Black MP
This is the first article in a new series for the Victorian Commons on Peter McLagan (1823-1900), by Dr Martin…
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Somerset v Stewart, 1772: an End to Slavery in Britain?
The campaigning activities of abolitionist MPs such as William Wilberforce and Thomas Fowell Buxton are well-known, but one former MP,…
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1833 Slavery Abolition Act: The Long Road to Emancipation in the British West Indies
Today marks the anniversary of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act receiving royal assent. But why was this bill necessary 26…
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The earl of Abingdon and the treatment of American prisoners of war
In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles highlights the career of one of the House’s more…
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Catherine Despard (c.1755-1815): Wife, Mother, Radical advocate
You may have heard of Catherine Despard from the television series Poldark. In this blog Helen Wilson, PhD candidate with…
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Conference Report: Bath 250
On 29 and 30 September the opening of Bath’s historic (Upper) Assembly Rooms was marked with a conference over Zoom,…
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Henry Dundas: A ‘great delayer’ of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Ahead of next Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Stephen Mullen of the University…
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Oliver Cromwell’s Western Designer
In today’s blog Dr David Scott, senior research fellow for our Commons 1640-1660 project, continues our look at parliamentary links…
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Parliament and Forced Colonial Labour in Richard Cromwell’s Parliament, 1659
In today’s blog Dr Stephen Roberts concludes his three-part blog series discussing parliamentary reactions to the 17th century transatlantic slave…
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Discourses of Freedom and Slavery, 1640-60
Today we return to our recent series from History of Parliament director Dr Stephen Roberts, who has been discussing parliamentary…
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Slavery, the Caribbean and English Liberties, 1620-40
Today’s blog is the first in a three-part series from History of Parliament director Dr Stephen Roberts about parliamentary involvement…
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The West India Interest and the Parliamentary Defence of Slavery, 1823-33
Ahead of Tuesday’s Virtual IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Dr Michael Taylor, the author of The Interest: How…