Hitchin was one of the first towns in Hertfordshire to set up its own Anti-Slavery Society. Quakers in Hitchin had been ...
William Cowper and the abolition of the slave trade
Abel Smith of Woodhall Park, Watton-at-Stone, is 33 when the ageing Wilberforce writes to his ‘young friend’ in this letter, ...
This petition was sent by Hertfordshire freeholders to William Hale, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, calling for a county meeting to petition Parliament ...
Two petitions sent from Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, and the surrounding area. The first calls for the ‘effectual mitigation’ or gradual abolition ...
A school project as part of the Hertfordshire Hidden Histories project
