Haileybury Lecture with Paul Bowden - The Legacies of Trans-Atlantic Slavery: Acknowledgement and Responses
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Tuesday 14 October 2025
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7.30 pm
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Attlee Room
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Free
Commentators in the 1990’s spoke of a “collective amnesia” surrounding the part that historic Trans-Atlantic slavery played in the development of Empire, and the creation of modern Britain.
A quarter century later, it was at the height of public consciousness: editorials from Simon Schama in the FT, apologies for the past from company boardrooms and national institutions, a month of demonstrations on the streets, and the toppling of statues.
How deep does this more recent acknowledgment of the legacies of Slavery run? What responses might it require of us in the present? This lecture by Paul Bowden, Honorary Professor of Law at the Nottingham Law School, promises to be an opportunity for a conversation about these questions.
Paul Bowden is Honorary Professor of Law at the Nottingham Law School and Chair of the National Justice Museum . He is a member of the Advisory Council of the UK Policy and Evidence Centre on Modern Slavery and Human Rights. Paul’s current work includes research into how historic Trans-Atlantic Slavery and the plantation economies of the West Indies in the 18th and early 19th were shaped by the City of London and how the ecology of the City itself was shaped by historic Slavery.