William A. Pettigrew

William A. Pettigrew is a professor of history at King’s College London. Since 2021 he has led the most comprehensive research and analysis ever undertaken into Britain’s involvement with the transatlantic traffic in enslaved African people. A prize-winning historian, Pettigrew is also series consultant on the BBC 2 TV series Finding Britain’s Slave Traders, which is based on his team’s findings and will be broadcast in autumn 2026.