The Platinum Line

Tag: Black lives matter

  • Who was Edward Colston?

    Who was Edward Colston?

    It has been a strange spring here in England. Halfway through March, the country was put into lockdown and we could only leave the house for essential shopping and short periods of exercise. For almost three months I have not been further than I can walk. My google timeline reads 19 miles in March, 19…

  • A house through time series 3 Guinea Street Bristol

    A house through time series 3 Guinea Street Bristol

    A house through time is a BBC 2 series that tells the story of an English city through the history of one of its houses.  Two previous series, which I very much enjoyed have focused on the northern cities of Newcastle and Liverpool.  As I belong to a history walking group and have written on…

  • Bristol and the slave trade

    Bristol and the slave trade

    This week we tackled a more difficult subject for our walk in the past walk – the Bristol slave trade. It is an uncomfortable but undeniable fact that much of Bristol’s prosperity came from the slave trade. Slavery is thousands of years old. The Romans brought slaves to Britain and Celtic tribes traded slaves. However,…