Toussaint Louverture [1797 – 1802] summed up the inhumanity of slavery in its systematic tendency ‘to tear away the son from his mother, the brother from his sister, the father from his son’.

London has a whole host of hospitals dotted across the city but which one was founded in 1721? Home to some of the UK’s oldest hospitals, many of London’s medical institutions date back a fair few ...