Collection
Date
Location
Type
The Iniquity of Slavery
in 2007 was a special event to recreate the image of the slave ship ‘Brookes’ using a life-size print of the middle deck and populating it with nearly 300 students from local schools. Students were also given the opportunity to learn African dance 2007
Sweet History?
2007
Sharp Practice
2007
Quakers and the path to abolition in Britain and the colonies
2007
Ties and Lives: Kent and the Slave Trade
2007
The Adisa Project: Bristol faces, Afrikan footsteps
2007
Slave Trade Abolition in Cambridgeshire & Suffolk (STACS)
2007
Freedom Song
2007
Abolition of the Slave Trade Act Commemorative Exhibitions
Nottingham Castle Museum held two exhibitions in 2007. Inspired by the anti-slavery medallion produced by Josiah Wedgwood in the 1790s, a group of young people from Nottingham’s African Caribbean community worked with artist Katherine Morling 2007
A' Adam's Bairns? Exploring equality and diversity in Scotland past and present
A’ Adam’s Bairns? is an educational resource pack produced in 2007 by a partnership of the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish Development Education Centre (Scotdec). The project explored equality and diversity both past and present 2007
Slavers
Hull Truck Theatre supported Wilberforce 2007 with two specially commissioned productions, Slavers and Sold, and a playwright festival. For one week in August 2007, Hull Truck Youth Theatre presented Slavers, set in 2007, which told the story 2007
Freedom Festival 2007
East Riding's Freedom Festival in 2007 commemorated the abolition of the slave trade and explored issues of modern day slavery through a multi-sensory performance featuring pupils from mainstream and special schools in the East Riding area. The play Freedom Festival 2007 2007
Believe in yourself...you can make change...today and tomorrow
As part of the Wilberforce 2007 programme, ArtLink Exchange, a community arts organisation in Hull, worked with local schoolchildren to produce an exhibition of artwork inspired by the bicentenary. This included artwork created by pupils from Sir 2007
Sugar and Slavery - The Penrhyn Connection
Penrhyn Castle on the outskirts of Bangor in Wales is owned by the National Trust. In 2007, the bicentenary was marked with a special exhibition and accompanying events exploring the connections between the Castle and the fortune of its former 2007
In Search of Henry Tate
2007
Bicentenary Freedom Flag
2007
Remembering Slavery in Hammersmith and Fulham
2007
Drivers for Change: Young People Leading the Way
Drivers for Change was a project led by LifeLine Network, a network of partnerships between community organisations and NGOs with a common aim to fight poverty. In Summer 2007, a team of young people visited Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Dominica 2007
Bitter Sweet Project
2007