Mytilla’s tomb, St Lawrence Parish Church, Oxhill, Warwickshire, 2010

This image is the gravestone of an enslaved girl called Myrtilla who had lived in the parish during the early eighteenth century. The inscription reads: ‘Here lyeth the body of Myrtilla, negro slave to Mr Thos Beauchamp of Nevis. Bapt Oct ye 20th. Buried Jan ye 6th 1705.’ She represents one of the thousands of… Read more

Worshipper

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My grandfather and my great-grandfather

Alexander (Alick) Golding, and Simon Golding. Alick was born around 1866 in Russia, and his son Simon, I believe, in 1885, according to a later naturalisation certificate in Grodno, now Belarus. The family came to London, according to our family history, in 1887 to escape the anti-Jewish pogroms, and settled in the East End of… Read more

Violeta Durand, Dalston mural, Dalston Lane

Violeta is an artist from Argentina Read more