The History Forum

On June 13th 2012, Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison will be officially inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Property! Barbados will join a select number of countries in the world recognized as being home to a site considered to be of outstanding universal value to humanity and worthy of being shared with all peoples of the world. We invite you all to join us on Wednesday June 13th at 4:30pm at the Garrison Savannah to witness this piece of Barbadian history and to enjoy the celebrations of this major international achievement. Keep checking our page for more details as we lead up to this very exciting event! Have a great day everyone! http://www.facebook.com/HistoricBridgetownAndItsGarrison

The National Archives of St. Kitts and Nevis have added PDFs of laws passed in 1867 and 1868 to http://www.historicbasseterre.com/ .   They deal with the recovery effort in Basseterre following the fire that destroyed most of it.  They helped to change the layout of the town and attempted to make it safe from fire. http://www.historicbasseterre.com:88/1867%20Act%20No%2014.pdf http://www.historicbasseterre.com:88/1868%20Act%20No%208.pdf http://www.historicbasseterre.com:88/1868%20Act%20No%2023.pdf Contact: National Archives Government Headquarters Church Street Basseterre St. Kitts, West Indies Tel: 869-465-2521 ext1208 alternative e-mail address: nationalarchives@gov.kn visit http://www.historicbasseterre.com/   Discover our people, our stories, our buildings, our heritage.  See us as we were then and as we are now! See our weekly contribution to www.inSKN.com heritage page.

BARBADOS NATIONAL TRUST THE MILL TURNS AGAIN!!! Morgan Lewis Mill Turning. Date: Sunday, May 06, 2012                Time: 10:00 am – 2:30 pm. Entrance. Adults ……..Bds $15.00 Children under 12yrs Bds $5.00 Including  one free 2 litre Bottle of Cane Juice.  

"Voyage to the Islands: Has Sloane, Slavery, and Scientific Travel in the Caribbean" opens May 3 at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. The exhibition is guest curated by James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University and Library, and the Natural History Museum in London. This exhibition uses the collections of the John Carter Brown Library to explore the relationship between early modern scientific knowledge, the Atlantic slave trade and the African diaspora in the Caribbean islands. While historians have long stressed the importance of travel in the making of early modern natural history, the relation between the natural sciences and European interactions with Africans through the slave trade has only recently received attention. Examining the intersection of science and slavery allows us to see how Africans in diaspora both contributed to European sciences and maintained their own knowledge t...