but Gladstone has come under repeated fire for his family’s involvement in the slave trade. It follows reports in August that ...

The descendants of former Prime Minister William Gladstone are facing calls to pay reparations to Jamaica for an ancestor's role in slavery. The Gladstone family apologised for its slaveholding ...

DAVID OLUSOGA:'By the 1820s, John Gladstone and other slave owners were facing strong opposition from abolitionists back home in Britain. At the heart of the battle was the new science of statistics.

Gladstone's father was a slave owner. The calls for change came in the wake of protests which saw a statue of slaver Edward Colston pulled down by protesters in Bristol. Two petitions have been ...