slavery

• Art / Hannah More

  Mural depicting Hannah More’s house painted in Fishponds

  The 18th-century poet was born in Fishponds and campaigned against slavery

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• News / A House Through Time

  Rees: ‘This is not a debate about guilt’

  Bristol's mayor responds to issues raised in A House Through Time

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• Features / slavery

  A House Through Time to focus on Bristol’s slavery past

  City merchants shipped more than 500,000 people into slavery

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• News / book launch

  Sneak preview of CARGO

  The multi-media experience offers an alternative narrative to transatlantic slave trade story

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• Your say / slavery

  ‘It is easy to bury the painful parts of our past but it is unfathomably important that we don’t’

  Grace Hillier thinks the city needs a place to confront its slave trading past

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• Features / slavery

  Blood on the bricks: more than Colston?

  Bristol's wealth acquired from the slave trade brings uncomfortable questions

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• People / miles chambers

  On the arts and the legacy of the slave trade

  Bristol poet laureate Miles Chambers reflects on various themes

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• News / Colston Girl's school

  Colston’s Girls’ School to remove references to Edward Colston in annual ceremony

  The school has taken the decision to change the focus of their Commemoration Day for the first time

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