Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain Collection_Children's The 4SE’s four-inch primary mirror

The 4SE’s four-inch primary mirror packs enough light-gathering ability to observe the best that the solar system has to offer: Saturn’s rings

and in so doing

Scale and compass

The route track of the Spanish Armada through the English Channel

This handmade fabric decoration depicts the Cutty Sark with beautiful glittering gold embroidery

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain Collection_Children's The 4SE’s four-inch primary mirrorThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery. Author: Padraic X. Scanlan Slave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre of the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic