Craft Court, the offices of the Shepherds Bush Housing Group, was named after William and Ellen Craft. The Crafts escaped enslavement in the United States, travelling to Britain to avoid recapture following the introduction of the Fugitive Slave Act…
A major Union supply depot and recruitment centre for United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War, Camp Nelson was designated a National Monument under the Antiquities Act in 2018 -- 155 years after it was initially established. The site…
Funded by a prominent group of Scottish-Americans – organized by then-U.S. Consul in Edinburgh, Wallace Bruce, and including philanthropist Andrew Carnegie – this monument was dedicated in Edinburgh's Old Calton Cemetery on 21 August 1893. Ostensibly…
