Author - Richard Dale

The South Sea Bubble by Edward Matthew Ward (1847) (Tate Britain)

Empires • Featured • Institutions • Slavery

How the Church Commissioners relied on bogus history to denounce...

13/04/2026

by Richard Dale

Professor Richard Dale, an expert on the history of the South Sea Company, sums up the historical...

Church Reparations Based on Flawed Slave Trade Claim

Institutions • Featured • Slavery

A critical commentary on Church Commissioners’ historic links to...

22/07/2025

by Nigel Biggar, Alka Cuthbert-Seghal, Richard Dale, Lawrence Goldman, Ian Paul, Tony Sewell, Robert Tombs, J. Baird

Did the Church invest in slavery? A new review shows key historical errors behind the Church of...