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West India Dock London

Event: CEISR Research Seminar, ‘City of Creoles: West Indian Absentees and the Re-imagining of Later Georgian London’

‘City of Creoles: West Indian Absentees and the Re-imagining of Later Georgian London’ Dr Natalie Zacek, University of Manchester This paper examines the ways in which the influx of absentee planters and their families from Britain’s West Indian colonies reshaped the urban development and elite society of London from the conclusion of the Seven Years’ […]

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