A primary school in London has changed its name to cut links to slavery. The governors of West Hampstead Primary School in Camden, formerly Beckford Primary School, agreed to strip the school of ...

Beckford Primary School in West Hampstead is currently named after William Beckford, a politician and former Lord Mayor of London who owned an estate in Jamaica with more than 3,000 slaves.

Dr Beryl Gilroy is believed to have become London’s second ever black headteacher and the first in Camden at West Hampstead Primary School in 1969. The school was then known as Beckford Primary ...

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