Liverpool's plans to more publicly recognise the role of slavery in the development of the city are continuing to gather pace, with an installation recently approved for a key city site.
The council's planning department recently approved an application to install a plaque on the World Museum on William Brown Street.
That plaque acknowledges the role in the slave trade of the Brown family, who funded aspects of the museum and the neighbouring Central Library.
It comes as part of a much wider council scheme announced last year to contextualise some of the city's road names and landmarks that have taken their names from those linked with slavery.
According the reports submitted to the council's planning department, the plaque on the World Museum will read: "Liverpool's Central Library and World Museum have their origins in wealth accrued through slavery.
"William Brown, the benefactor of both institutions, became one of the premier importers of slave-produced cotton into Liverpool during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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"The Brown family also owned many enslaved people on their plantations in the United States.
"Shaw's Brow, the thoroughfare on which the museum and library were erected, was renamed William Brown Street in gratitude to him for donating £40,000 for their building.
"Both organisations opened to the public, 8 October 1860."
It is one of many plaques that will be installed on streets across the city, including Bold Street, Falkner Street, Parr Street and Colquitt Street.
Historian Laurence Westgaph was commissioned last year to lead the program, working with a panel from numerous organisations in the city to move the proposals forward.
The scheme is named in honour of city historian Eric Lynch.
Speaking last year, his son Andrew Lynch said: “Eric Lynch and his family are deeply moved and proud that local organisations and the City Council have chosen to honour his work in such a tangible way.
“These plaques are a tribute to Eric’s long years of work as a Black community activist and educator, teaching the people of Liverpool to acknowledge and understand their historic inheritance in an honest and open way, and uncovering the true contribution made by Black people throughout the growth and life of our great city.”
