Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain Collection_Children's James Stone

James Stone

This handmade fabric decoration depicts the Cutty Sark with beautiful glittering gold embroidery

The king is depicted wearing coronation robes and a dark full-bottomed wig

It evokes the very active use of drawings in the van de Velde Studio and their role as tools in the artistic process

During the Second World War

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain Collection_Children's James StoneThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Author: Padraic X. Scanlan Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre of the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic