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This is an image of James Callaghan, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on the left, and Max van der Stoel, Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the right. The men are both dressed in suits and are engaging in conversation. Photo taken 1975.

British Labour Party Papers, 1968–1994

The Labour Party was founded in 1900 to represent the interests of trade unions and working-class voters. In political terms, it has often been characterised as a “broad church”, encompassing a...

Date:1968-1994
Contributor:Labour History Archive and Study Centre (c/o People's History Museum)
Identifier:9781851171330
A black and white image of Liverpool docks. Overlaid is an image of North Commercial wharf of Charleston, S.C. with cotton bales for shipping to foreign and domestic ports via sailing ships.

Slave Trade Records from Liverpool, 1754–1792

From the mid-eighteenth century, Liverpool emerged as the dominant British port in the development of Britain’s transatlantic slavery economy. This collection sheds light on this dark, albeit significant and consequential,...

Date:1754-1811
Contributor:Liverpool Record Office
Identifier:9781851171477
A cover page with a shield surrounded by a lion and a unicorn, with text in serif font that reads: The British Broadcasting Corporation First Annual Report 1927.

BBC Handbooks, Annual Reports, and Accounts, 1927–2002

The British Broadcasting Company became the British Broadcasting Corporation on 1 January 1927. This institution quickly became an iconic part of British culture. The BBC established its reputation as an...

Date:1927-2002
Contributor:BBC Written Archives Centre
Identifier:9781851171385

British Diplomacy with America and Ireland: an Ambassador's Letters, 1909–1962

Arthur Cecil Murray was elected as a Liberal Party MP for Kincardinshire in 1903, a seat that he held until 1923. During the First World War, he served as Private...

Date:1909-1962
Contributor:National Library of Scotland
Identifier:9781851171491
Robert W. Weir’s painting Embarkation of the Pilgrims. A group of people gather, one holding a book, another with his hands outstretched.

America in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1635–1928

America in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1635–1928, was curated in association with the Bodleian Library.This collection contains records compiled by the United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG), a UK-based Anglican...

Date:1635-1928
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:9781851171439
Rows of enslaved people digging cane holes on the Island of Antigua

Slave Trading Records from William Davenport & Co., 1745–1797

William Davenport was a Liverpool merchant and British slave trader. From the late 1740s till the early 1790s, he invested regularly in the African slave trade and was a partner...

Date:1745-1797
Contributor:Keele University Library
Identifier:9781851171767
An engraving of The Mill Yard, grinding sugar cane in a windmill in 1823. A windmill on the left hand side, with people and cattle working.

Slavery, Exploitation, and Trade in the West Indies, 1759–1832

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jamaica was the largest and most profitable island in Britain's West Indian plantation economy. An estimated one million enslaved Africans were forcibly shipped there...

Date:1759-1823
Contributor:Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Identifier:9781851171811
People with baskets and sacks pick cotton on a plantation.

Slavery in Jamaica, Records from a Family of Slave Owners, 1686–1860

This collection contains records from the Surrey History Centre detailing the Goulburn family’s longstanding ownership of the Amity Hall plantation and associated properties in Jamaica during the seventeenth and eighteenth...

Date:1686-1856
Contributor:Surrey History Centre
Identifier:9781851171842