Gunwharf Quays has decided not to host a statue commemorating the West Africa Squadron, a Portsmouth-based naval fleet that freed around 150,000 slaves in the 19th century.
East London’s second woman mayor, Magdalena Elizabeth “Elsabe” Kemp, died at her Seaspray home in Gonubie on Wednesday. She was 95. Smashing through workplace gender norms, Kemp was the city’s first female estate agent, a member of the President’s Council, a sporting champion and a woman who loved the colour purple.
A long-overdue memorial to the Royal Navy's contribution to ending the slave trade will help to tackle the 'distortion' of Britain's past, a leading Cambridge historian says.
Admiral Lord Alan West (pictured) has thrown his weight behind a campaign to create the first memorial to the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron, which seized slave trade vessels bound for the Americas.
A rallying cry for a memorial to recognise Britain's contribution to ending the slave trade was answered last night by Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft.