Bath & Colonialism
Links
About these links
Here you can find further information on Bath and Colonialism:
Bath Abbey and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Bath Abbey – commitment to racial justice
https://www.bathabbey.org/anti-racism/
Bath Abbey – Memorials and Empire exhibition
https://www.bathabbey.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Memorials-Empire-and-Slavery-Exhibition-leaflet.pdf
Beckford’s Tower and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Beckford’s Tower Information on William Beckford’s connection with the slave trade
https://beckfordstower.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Beckfords-and-Slavery-leaflet-2007.pdf
Bath Record Office and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Bath Record Office – Hidden Presence in Bath. A collaborative research project exploring the presence of Black people in Georgian and Victorian Bath. Young people from the Black Families Education Support Group conducted research at Bath Record Office, and wrote audio pieces based on their findings which were incorporated into a film: https://hiddenpresencebath.wordpress.com/
Bath Record Office – Black History Matters – Online Exhibition https://www.batharchives.co.uk/galleries/black-history-matters-online-exhibition
Bath’s Uncomfortable Past walking Tour
A Bath Spa University project – Engaging with Bath’s Uncomfortable Past through walking and creativity – Co-Creation Network (co-creation-network.org) has created a walking tour map called Bath’s Uncomfortable History
Dyrham Park
The National Trust – ‘Colonial Dyrham’ exhibition at Dyrham Park, near Bath
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/dyrham-park/features/exhibitions-at-dyrham-park
Sweet Waters - Walking with legacies of British slave-ownership
Richard White (Artist and Lecturer, Bath Spa University) Project – Sweet Waters – Walking with legacies of British slave-ownership, revealing reluctant heritage.
Sydney Gardens – a reluctant Heritage
Sydney Gardens, a reluctant heritage by Richard S. White
Saltford Brass Mill
For information about copper and brass goods made in and around Bath and exported to West Africa in trade for enslaved people visit Saltford Brass Mill.
The Anti-Slavery movement in Bath
An Article by Roger Holly on the Anti-Slavery movement in Bath: Bath History , Vol 14 – 2016. *Please note this is an older article, so language may not reflect the changes that have occurred in this area
Bristol Archives
Bristol Archives – Early Black Presence in Bristol index
https://archives.bristol.gov.uk/indexes/earlyblackpresence
The National Archives
The National Archives – Slavery and the British transatlantic slave trade
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/
International Slavery Museum
Historic England - The Impact of Transatlantic Slavery on England’s Built Environment –
including entry on Bath on pages 80-81
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/the-slave-trade-and-abolition/audit-of-slavery-connections-with-englands-built-environment/
The National Trust - Colonial Connections
Report on Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the
Care of the National Trust Including Links with Historic Slavery
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/addressing-the-histories-of-slavery-and-colonialism-at-the-national-trust
Legacies of British Slavery database
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical slave trade website
Slave Voyages
Slave Voyages: explore the dispersal of enslaved African people across the Atlantic world
https://www.slavevoyages.org/
Histories of Colour: The British Slave Trade
Partner organisations in the Bath & Colonialism Archive Project are:
