Main 4K
Wednesday 11 Mar 2026, 18:00 - ends at 19:15
EIN HANES
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, I presume?
Speaker: John Roberts
Born John Rowlands, in Denbigh in 1841, this Welshman had a very traumatic childhood. How he became a journalist, soldier, and the famous explorer of central Africa who ‘found’ David Livingston is a remarkable story. He later became a British politician and campaigned against the slave trade, so why are his achievements still not met with universal acclaim?
CV: Most of my working life was in education: junior and grammar schools, an English language centre, FE colleges, Polytechnic and universities (Wolverhampton and Newport). I spent a few years on building sites and three years in the Caribbean taking money (legitimately) from mostly American tourists. My family is Welsh, from around Tredegar but as a result of the diaspora I was born and brought up in the Black Country.
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