The City of London Corporation has launched Revealing The City’s Past, its project to reinterpret the statues of slave ...

The homage to William Beckford stands in the Guildhall's Great Hall. Officials voted to remove it in 2021 but then decided it could stay if a plaque explaining his links to the slave trade is added.

Prominent City of London figures William Beckford and Sir John Cass will fall; By DAN SALES FOR MAILONLINE . Published: 11:51 EDT, 21 January 2021 | Updated: 14:00 EDT, 21 January 2021 .

William Beckford occupies an odd niche in cultural history. Imagine the various preoccupations of Charles Foster Kane, Howard Hughes, Charles Saatchi, Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysmans in one ...

William Beckford Slave plantation owner, lord mayor, politician In the mid-1740s Beckford moved to London to run his business affairs and he became one of the most powerful businessmen in the city.

It is believed that following William Beckford’s death, the Tower-end of the grotto was filled in and the tunnel became obscured Excavations have revealed that a hidden grotto at Beckford's ...

A 19th-century engraving of Beckford’s Tower, which was built between 1826 and 1827 by the writer, slave owner and collector William Beckford (1760-1840) and is now owned by the Bath ...

William Beckford statue . City of London Corporation. Miriam Burrell 15 September 2023. Plaques are being fixed to the statues of a former Lord Mayor of London and MP explaining their links to ...

Complete suite of 6 large engravings after paintings by George Robertson and commissioned by William Beckford., 1778; close. Medium engraving Description Keffiyeh truffaut disrupt Sale Consectetur ...

The estate’s most famous owner was the eccentric William Beckford, who built the gothic revival Fonthill Abbey, known as Beckford’s Folly, and filled it with an astonishing collection of furn ...