Family fortunes founded on slavery: Introducing the Sandbach Tinne Collection

28 August 2025

Archival image of a steam locomotive labeled “Enterprise” with smoke rising from its chimney, positioned on rail tracks in a forest clearing. Several workers stand around the train and timber logs, with thatched huts visible among tall trees in the background.
National Museums Liverpool, Archives Centre, CC BY-NC 4.0.

Records unearthed by a Cambridge PhD student expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties, as revealed in a new book and digital collection.

Read the story on the main Cambridge University website.