UCL historians discuss the launch of a major investigation into
Britain’s debt to slavery in a bid to create the first ‘encyclopaedia of
British slave owners’. It will highlight the major companies, art
collections and institutions that can trace their existence back to colonial
slavery in the 19th century.

The three-year project, ‘Legacies of British Slave Ownership’, is the first
comprehensive attempt to trace the impact of slave ownership on the
development of modern Britain.