Happy 219th anniversary of the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire 1807 (yesterday). Lead directly to the eventual abolition of Slave Trading in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and to a great extent the Indian Ocean when British ships started hunting down foreign slave ships from1810, as well as the freeing of Slaves in the British Empire some 27 ye...

I’ll be treading the boards again on 16th April 2026 at the Town Hall in Stockbridge Hampshire raising money for stockbridgeukraine aid for Ukraine.

Another great opportunity to talk with BBC DJ Katie Martin and then calling public on BBC Radio Solent.

Hear the show here on BBC Sounds, I come on at 2hrs 11mins right after Supertramp “The Logical Song”:

Henry “Sugar” Goodson was the seventh child in a family of twelve children, six boys and six girls, the children were born over a period of twenty three years between 1843 and 1866 which meant that his mother Sarah spent most of her adult life either pregnant or breastfeeding. She also was forced to bury two of her youngest children, both girls, in the 1860s.<...