Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain Collection_Children's During the Second World War

During the Second World War

Pepys' fame derives both from the private diary he kept from 1660 to 1669

as well as many other features

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

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain Collection_Children's During the Second World WarThe 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