Top £19,000-a-year Wimbledon girls’ prep school renames its sports hall over links to slave owner

A £19,000-a-year private girls prep school has decided to rename its sports hall after it was revealed the family it was named after had links to the slave trade.  Wimbledon High School in Merton, south west London, is planning on dropping the name Draxmont because of the family’s association with a slave plantation owner who … Read more

Top £19,000-a-year Wimbledon girls’ prep school renames its sports hall over links to slave owner

A £19,000-a-year private girls prep school has decided to rename its sports hall after it was revealed the family it was named after had links to the slave trade.  Wimbledon High School in Merton, south west London, is planning on dropping the name Draxmont because of the family’s association with a slave plantation owner who … Read more