From slavery to sponges: imagining conversations in Victorian Budleigh Part 1
The latest arrival on Fairlynch Museum's new noticeboard is a poster advertising the free workshop on Saturday 14 November at the Exeter Community Centre on ‘Legacies of British slave-ownership.’ It's organised by the History Department at University College London. Details can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ The poster was circulated to Devon museums including Fairlynch. No doubt organisers of the workshop feel that there are many in the county who have strong views about the issue of slavery and the extent to which Devonians were involved in it. I touched on the issue in an earlier post following my visit to the exhibition ‘West Country to World’s End - The South West in the Tudor Age’ at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery. To read it click he re Devon historian Dr Todd Gray devoted a whole book to the subject in his 2007 publication Devon an...