Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 did not end the traffic of human beings across the Atlantic. Indeed, for many decades to come, hundreds of thousands of Africans continued to be shipped
The Royal Hospital at Greenwich was one of the first homes for British seamen who had been wounded on duty or, because of age, could not support themselves. This report of a dig made in 1999 and 2001
Archaeological investigations, undertaken as part of a programme to restore St George's Church, Bloomsbury, to its original Hawksmoor splendour, involved the removal of 871 triple lead-lined coffins
