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Rights & Activism
Rights & Activism
Ottobah Cugoano: A powerful critic of slavery
Cugoano shared his own experience of enslavement to try and end it for good
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From royal menagerie to murderous gardener: A holiday in Georgian London
Elizabeth Chivers’ unpublished diary reveals stories of ghosts and iconic landmarks in 1814 London
War & Weapons
War & Weapons
Mary Seacole: Doctress of the Crimean War
The determined businesswoman and caregiver who looked after troops at war
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Sir Christopher Wren's Plan for Rebuilding the City of London after the dreadfull Conflagration in 1666 (plan)
Wren, Christopher
1776
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (memoir)
Seacole, Mary, Russell, William Howard, James Blackwood and Co.
1857