Up to a third of the National Trust's 300 UK houses have links to colonialism, a project found.
The initial finding of Prof Fowler's project was that up to a third of the National Trust's 300 UK houses have links to colonialism. "I expected [the links] to be extensive but I didn't expect there to be that many: the connection was umbilical."On the far right of the portrait is a boy in a metal slave collar, believed to be Will Archus
"It's probably earlier than a lot of people realised," she said. "We think the boy might be called Will Archus. Set in grounds encompassing serpentine lakes, Kedleston's Robert Adam-designed stately home is one of the trust's many impressive Derbyshire properties.
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