Links
As the project develops we will add more links to other work in the area. Please do contact us if you would like a reference to your project to be included here.
- Black and Asian Studies Association
- BASA fosters research and to disseminates information on the history of Black peoples in Britain.
- Bristol Legacy Commission
- The BLC is focused on improving service provision for ethnic minority communities in Bristol and will invest in funding projects in order to react to organisations/individuals who have previously felt excluded from contributing their thoughts, aspirations and visions.
- East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
- The EIAH project examines the British country house in an imperial and global context.
- English Heritage’s Slavery and Abolition project
- Includes English Heritage’s research into the links between its country houses, slavery and the slave trade.
- Equiano Centre
- Based at UCL in London, the Equiano Centre fosters historical understanding of the black presence in Britain. This website includes the project map Black Londoners 1800-1900.
- George Hibbert.com
- Nick Hibbert Steele’s site documenting George Hibbert and the Hibbert family.
- International Slavery Museum
- The ISS highlights the international importance of slavery, both in a historic and contemporary context
- Jamaican Family Search
- Jamaican Family Search is a virtual genealogy library for Jamaica which is particularly strong in 19th century material. Although it remains our policy not to link to websites which charge for content, Jamaican Family Search carries a variety of free resources in addition to those for which a subscription is required, and we are pleased to acknowledge the value of the site as a whole to our work.
- Museum of London Docklands
- Includes the award-winning London, Sugar, Slavery Gallery, which explores London's part in the system of slave labour that transported Africans to the Caribbean to work on sugar plantations.
- National Archives
- An overview of the major original sources at the National Archives in Britain that relate to slavery and the slave trade in former British colonies.
- Remembering Slavery
- Explores links between transatlantic slavery and North East England. Includes an online exhibition, learning zone and research zone.
- SCAWDI - Sparkbrook Caribbean & African Women's Development Initiative
- Includes History Detectives - uncovering the history of black people in the Midlands from 1650-1918.
- Scotland and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
- Learning resource for school pupils about the role of Scots in abolishing the slave trade.
- Slave-ownership in Amsterdam, 1863
- A map of slave-owners in Amsterdam who were awarded compensation for ownership of enslaved people in Suriname in 1863 with links to the enslaved people themselves.
- Slavery and Revolution
- Showcases letters from Simon Taylor (1738-1813), a slave-holder and plantation owner in Jamaica.
- Slavery and the British Country House
- Explores the links between slavery and four English Heritage-owned country houses.
- Slaves and Highlanders
- Examines the role of Scots in the slave colonies of British Guiana prior to Emancipation in 1834.
- STeR: Colonialism, Slavery, Trade, Reparations
- A group of academics and non-academics who work to formulate a framework for reparations that would be adopted by influential international organisations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund. Site includes narratives and teaching resources.
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Traces more than 10 million enslaved people and 35,000 slave-ship voyages in this online database.
- Understanding Slavery Initiative
- Supports the teaching a learning of transatlantic histories and legacies. Includes activities, maps and videos for teachers and students.
- Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation
- WISE generates research, provides a forum for academic discourse and interaction, and advances public understanding of both historic and contemporary slavery. Includes a Contemporary Slavery Teachers' Resource pack.
- Women's History Network
- Includes articles about Black women's history.
