Plans for a permanent commemoration of the abolition of slavery via the display of African religious shrines in the African Worlds section of the Horniman Museum.
African Worlds - religion, slavery and diaspora
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Blackwall Lane School, Greenwich Division (Dreadnought) GREN 919A. West and East Elevation. Drawing no. 8
object | ARC/HMG/BD/001/005/006
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Receipt
object | ARC/HMG/CM/009/001/F24/146
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Postcard, Horniman's Museum, Forest Hill
object | ARC/HMG/PR/003/010/002
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Colour slide of landscape - buildings in mid ground and mountains in background
object | ARC/GUP/006/174
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