On 10 November, Museum in Docklands will open the only permanent gallery in London that examines the city’s involvement in transatlantic slavery and its legacy on the capital.

Museum in Docklands is situated in what was built in 1802 as Number 1 Warehouse, West India Dock – a vast storehouse for sugar and rum produced in the Caribbean, and the capital’s most significant remaining building connected with the international slave-based economy.

Museum in Docklands presents a series of talks, discussions, walks and readings around this opening:

Compensation for Slavery? – a lecture on colonial reparations paid out in the 1830s

What We Buy – a lecture by James Walvin

West India Dock and the Caribbean – a walking tour

Olaudoh Equiano: His Life and Times – international panellists discuss London’s greatest black abolitionist

The Black Presence in London and the Legacy of Slavery – a lecture by Dr Caroline Bressey

Undressing Empire: Black British Perspectives – a round table discussion chaired by Toyin Agetbu

Unheard Voices – a storytelling anthology for children