Semi-retired management consultant Colin Kemp, 76, has launched a fundraising campaign to build a monument to the Royal Navy s West Africa Squadron, which freed more than 150,000 slaves.
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In September 1923, the British empire reached its maximum territorial extent. A staggering 460 million people lived within its borders. Yet just as the imperial project reached its apex, writes Matthew Parker, cracks were widening…