Liverpool council’s decision in January 2020 to contextualise streets named after slave traders shed important light on the town’s infamous history as one of the world’s largest slave trading ports.

LIVERPOOL, England — Beatles lovers who seek out Penny Lane imagine it as that magical place "in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies." But it has a sinister undertone that ...

A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade ...

Beatles lovers who seek out Penny Lane imagine it as that magical place "in my ears and in my eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skies." But it has a sinister undertone that still reverberates. The ...

A Reconciliation statue unveiled in Richmond at 15th and Main streets last year has a counterpart in Liverpool, England, because of the links both cities have to slavery. Liverpool was the European ...

The first of 20 streets in Liverpool have been named for consideration for plaques to explain their links to the city’s involvement with the slave trade. The streets are all linked with slavery in ...

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves. Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped ...

Katie Donington was on the advisory board for the 'Underwriting Souls' project. She worked on the ESRC-funded 'Legacies of British Slave-ownership' project (2009-2012) and the AHRC/ESRC-funded ...