Children queuing for Salvation Army ‘Farthing Breakfasts’, about 1900

What effect did ‘the experiment’ have on the children? (ED 50/8)

Extract from the report: What food was provided? (ED 50/8)

Extract from the report. How was “the experiment” carried out? (ED 50/8)

Extracts from a letter sent to 18 British representatives in South and Central American countries, 1966. Catalogue ref: FO 953/2334

Extract from confidential report to London from the British Embassy in Montevideo, 1966. Catalogue ref: FO 953/2334

East African enslaved people released from a dhow by HMS Daphne, 1 November 1868 (FO 84/1310)

East African enslaved people released from a dhow by HMS Daphne, 1 November 1868 (FO 84/1310)

East African enslaved people released from a dhow by HMS Daphne, 1 November 1868 (FO 84/1310)

Court records from Dominica, a British colony in the Leeward Islands, January 1814 (CO 71/51)

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