Alex Renton.
alex renton
blood legacy: reckoning with a family’s story of slavery (2021)
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Alex Renton is the oldest child of the Conservative minister Tim Renton. He was educated at Eton and at the University of Exeter, where he took his English degree. He has worked as a journalist on the Independent and the London Evening Standard. He is also a broadcaster, his programmes including two exposurs of child abuse at leading boys’ boarding schools. With BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan he founded ‘Heirs of Slavery’, an organisation advocating reparations from Britain to countries which had suffered from the slave trade.
