About this website
What?
This dataset is currently (June 2023) the most complete account of British representational public monuments related to British transatlantic slavery.
Why?
This was a project motivated by accountability and openness. No coherent dataset of UK public monuments related to slavery existed.
Who?
The dataset has been developed by academics from the University of Essex’s Department for Art History and UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis: Dr. Gavin Grindon, Dr. Duncan Hay and Ph.D. candidate Jennie Williams.
We would like to acknowledge the assistance and advice of UCL’s Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery, as well as the support of the Essex University students who participated in the Essex Digital Verification Unit-assisted project to identify and verify the monuments.
This website is developed by Walk With Web Inc. (WWW). The project receives long term sustainability support as part of the Regenerated Identities network of African Digital Humanities projects by WWW.
How?
We applied methods in Natural Language Processing; geocoding; and open-source intelligence to identify monuments and their connections to slavery.
Terms of Use
This site and its data are released under a Creative Commons licence (CC4.0). View usage and attribution details here: https://creativecommons.org/
Download the dataset as a .csv file here: (CSV download)