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Thomas Anson – the Story of a Slave in the Dales

Via WIKI COMMONS. Public Domain. Official badge of the British Anti-Slavery Movement, c. 1795, Josiah Wedgewood Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) and either William Hackwood or Henry Webber; "Josiah Wedgewood…produced the emblem as a jasper-ware cameo at his pottery factory".

“…I researched and wrote in the spirit of honouring lives that historians have often ignored and also in an attempt to understand something, however infinitessimal, about what ordinary people wore, or how their lives related to textiles; what their textiles could say about them and society…”

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At Old Willy’s One Night

    Archives were shut, yesterday, for some reason or other so I had to content myself with the Reference Library instead. Ended up spending some time in the company of  Robert Sharp; a shepherd’s son who became schoolmaster at North Cave, East Riding of Yorkshire,  from 1804 to 1842. To entertain his grown up […]