Lockdown Lecture number 15. The impacts of slavery on port cities like Bristol and Liverpool have been much in the news lately, but slavery - and its abolition - also impacted parts of the country that rarely make the headlines - such as Croydon.

For example, Croydon’s biggest owner of slaves in 1833 was George Smith …. who was the great-great-grandfather of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who was to become Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

This talk is by local historian Sean Creighton

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