Northamptonshire History Talks


Northamptonshire History Talks

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  • “It’s all Northants’ Fault!”

A (sometimes tongue-in-cheek) look at how nearly everything we have today is thanks to Northamptonshire, the world’s primordial soup.

  • “Northamptonshire and the Abolition of Slavery”

In 1838, full emancipation swept across the British Empire.To mark the occasion, William Knibb stood before a vast congregation in Jamaica and declared: THE MONSTER IS DEAD.

But did you know that several of the weapons used to slay the monster were made, or at least sharpened, in Northamptonshire?