The Slave-owners of Bloomsbury: an exhibition
*PLEASE NOTE* THE EXHIBITION WILL CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY 18th JANUARY 2012
From October 10th 2011 in the South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
A free exhibition organised by the Legacies of British
Slave-ownership project to mark Black History Month 2011. It will continue until 9th January 2012, subject to UCL's normal opening hours.
Slave-ownership was central to the formation of modern Britain. Even at the moment of abolition in 1833, owners, rather than the enslaved, were compensated to the tune of £20 million. Through words and images, this exhibition traces the contentious lives and legacies those slave-owners who lived close to the newly-founded UCL.
A free walkers' guide to "George Hibbert's London" will also be available at the exhibition.
For more information and a map to the South Cloisters, please visit http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:cl-gqc602ec-1om7o1/.
The exhibition is supported
by the UCL Public Engagement Unit under the Beacons for Public Engagement
Programme, funded by HEFCE, the UK Research Councils and the Wellcome Trust. We
are indebted to Sussanah Chan for her expert co-ordination of the exhibition,
and to Pete Grindrod for its design.
Public Lecture
On 18th October at 1:15pm, also to mark Black History Month,
Professor Catherine Hall gave a UCL Lunch Hour Lecture on "Voicing
Slavery: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Prince". To see the lecture, click here.
