HUMAN RESOURCES: SLAVERY AND THE MAKING/ MODERN BRITAIN (PB)

When you discover that gym treadmills were pioneered on plantations or that denim jeans were once clothing for enslaved people, you can't help but ask where else the legacy of slavery hides in plain sight. Through the stories of 39 everyday places and objects – from art galleries to football stands, banks to hospitals, country houses to kitchen cupboards - this book unpicks the threads of the history that we never learned in school, and reveals how Britain's present is bound to a past darker than we commonly realise.