British Library adds Poet Laureate Ted Hughes to a dossier linking him to slavery and colonialism 

The former Poet Laureate, who came from humble origins in Yorkshire, was found to be a descendant of Nicholas Ferrar who was involved in the slave trade some 300 years before Hughes was born. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8974157/British-Library-adds-Poet-Laureate-Ted-Hughes-dossier-linking-slavery-colonialism.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490