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Join Alex Renton, author of Blood Legacy, as he considers Ayshire, Burns, Slavery: a difficult legacy?Alex Renton, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), is an author and journalist living in Edinburgh. He works primarily in reportage and investigation, for the BBC, the Times, the Guardian and Daily Mail.
His recent books include Blood Legacy: reckoning with a family's story of slavery (about the Fergusson and Hunter-Blair families of Ayrshire) and Stiff Upper Lip: secrets, crimes and the schooling of a ruling class.
His most recent radio series, In Dark Corners, won multiple awards and is available on BBC Sounds.
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Murdoch's Lone, Alloway, KA7 4PQ Ayr, United Kingdom, Ayr, United Kingdom
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