Painting. Lord Penrhyn's slate quarry near Bangor / John Nixon. - 1807. - Watercolour; 14x20.7cm, in gilt frame 36.8x42.1x2cm. - Signed with initals and dated 1807, dated 1808 on reverse and inscribed ...

Here the breaking point is at Penrhyn slate quarry near Bethesda in north Wales where from 1900 until 1903 the longest strike in British history took place. An entire community, locked out by the ...

Built on the proceeds of sugar harvested by enslaved people on four plantations in Jamaica, and quarrying in what was once ...