Birkbeck University Of London
LONDON, November 1, 2011 -
Discovery rewrites history after 140 years
Press website (available from 12:00 GMT on 1/11/11):www.bbk.ac.uk/news/dr.-livingstones-lost-1871-massacre-diary-recovered
140 years ago in Africa David Livingstone, the Victorian explorer, gave Henry M Stanley a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which he described the way that slave traders slaughtered 400 innocent people.