The History Forum

Christmas Gift Ideas from the BMHS Shop Lottie Finds Heritage by Sandra O Browne This charming local title about a little black-belly lamb called Lottie is a gift suitable for children in the 6 - 10 age group and is the perfect way for them to learn about Historic Bridgetown ... Lottie is an inquisitive little Barbados Blackbelly lamb which has been created to help young readers appreciate matters of Heritage and other topics. Keep and eye out for the next title in the series. Sandra O. Browne PhD is a crafts historian and craft development coordinator, Entrepreneurial Development Division, Barbados Investment and Development Corporation Lottie Finds Heritage is available in the Barbados Museum Gift Shop and a very affordable $20.00. To obtain your copy please call 427-0201 or email customerservice@barbmuse.org.b b

  Join Us at The History Forum on Facebook!   Do you want to share more about the role History and Heritage play in our lives? Do you want to find out about history and heritage events happening in Barbados and the region? Join The History Forum Facebook page to share your ideas and events with teachers, students and all those interested in History and Heritage in the Caribbean. https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/groups/292901264079693/

  Call for Contributors: A Guide to Slave Route Sites of Memory in the Caribbean   In 1994 UNESCO launched the Slave Route Project focusing on the transatlantic, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean slave trades. Its purpose was to break the silence surrounding the slave trade and to make universally known its causes, implications and modalities, by means of scientific and multidisciplinary research about the realities and brutalities of the African slave trade and slavery, in which more than 11 million Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade alone were sold into bondage in the Americas. Moreover, it aimed to highlight the profound consequences of this enforced dialogue on the cultures of the world, in particular those of the Americas and the Caribbean. This publication is part of an effort to ensure that the slave trade and Africa’s cultural heritage more generally, assume their rightful place in the global heritage of humanity. It aims to demonstrate the oft...

The Barbados Museum and Historical Museum is hosting a commemorative tour of Panama to celebrate the centenary of the Opening of the Panama Canal from August 12-19, 2014. Over 20,000 Barbadians migrated to the Panama Canal Zone to help build one of the 20th century's biggest engineering feats! Register and book now! Call the Barbados Museum and Historical Society for more information: (246) 427-0201.

Thank you to all of the participants of the Special Graduate History Forum that brought together graduate students from across CARICOM to deliver presentations on their research in the recently held symposium, "From the Margins to the Main: Sharing New Perspectives in Caribbean History and Heritage." The Department of History and Philosophy welcomed a large audience to the CARICOM Research Centre at the Cave Hill Campus of The University of the West Indies on Friday, April 19, 2013. Participants were treated to the newest research being conducted on the history and heritage of the Cayman Islands, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica. Topics ranged from Sovereignty and Independence to Church History and education to the Women's Movement and Trade Unionism. We hope to continue the event next year!

Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy 's HISTORY FORUM o n Friday, April 12th at 4:30 pm in the Bruce St. John Room [located in the Humanities Quadrangle] Mr. Nicholas Courtney will present a paper entitled: "Land Use (and Fishing) in the Island of Mustique"

In her new book, Sugar in the Blood, Andrea Stuart weaves her family story around the history of slavery and sugar in Barbados. Stuart's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather landed on the island in the 1630s. He had been a blacksmith in England, but became a sugar planter in Barbados, at a time when demand for the crop was exploding worldwide. Stuart is descended from a slave owner who, several generations after the family landed in Barbados, had relations with an unknown slave. http://www.npr.org/2013/02/04/170552296/a-barbados-family-tree-with-sugar-in-the-blood

Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy 's HISTORY FORUM o n Friday, April 5th at 4:30 pm in the Bruce St. John Room [located in the Humanities Quadrangle] Ms. Annette Graham will present a paper entitled: "A Monument to a Barbadian Hero: Errol Barrow"

Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy 's HISTORY FORUM o n Friday, March 22nd at 4:30 pm in the Bruce St. John Room [located in the Humanities Quadrangle] Mr. Frederick Alleyne will present a paper entitled: "Barbadian Migration to Brazil and British Guiana: Differences and Similarities"  

Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy's HISTORY FORUM on Friday, March 8, 2013 in the Bruce St. John Room [located in the Humanities Quadrangle, Cave Hill Campus, UWI] Ms. Denise Rock will present a paper entitled "Second Innings: Constantine's Fight Against Racism in England"

The Barbados Museum and Historical Society are pleased to announce the 2013 Lecture Series under the theme The Emancipation Project, 1838-1937 will begin on Thursday, March 14, 2013 with a lecture by Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles entitled "Emancipation Economics: Financial Compensation for Enslavers and Legal Freedom for the Enslaved".   All lectures will be held on Thursdays and all begin at 7:00 p.m. The venue is the Queen's Park Steel Shed.

Legacies of British Slave-ownership is the umbrella for two projects based at UCL tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modern Britain: the ESRC -funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, now complete, and the ESRC and AHRC -funded Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833 , running from 2013-2015. You can now search the Slave Compensation Database.

 The response to the latest proposals for the National Curriculum in History (February 2013) can justifiably be described as historic (or should that be histrionic?). Since the first national curriculum was established in 1988 by the Conservative education secretary Kenneth Baker, the reaction to any changes has tended to be reasonably muted, occasionally even warm. Never before has there been such a vehement opposition comparable to that being engendered by current Conservative education secretary, Michael Gove. A recent poll from the Historical Association (1) showed responses that would force most politicians screeching towards a U-turn; 96% felt that the proposed history curriculum ‘was a negative change’; 96% felt that the curriculum did not provide an effective route for progression in history from Key Stages 1-3; the most positive element that could be gleaned from the survey was that 12% agreed with the overall aims of the new curriculum... Click here to read more: A Respon...

Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison is the featured property in the latest issue of UNESCO's World Heritage Review on Small Island Developing States . Read more about managing heritage in a Caribbean Small Island Developing State.  

  Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy's   HISTORY FORUM   on Friday, February 22, 2013 in the Arts Lecture Theatre (ALT) [located in the Humanities Quadrangle, Cave Hill Campus, UWI]   Professor Sir Woodville Marshall   will present a paper entitled   "Making Space at Cave Hill: Cobbling Together a UWI Campus"

 

Visit http://obeahhistories.org  if you want to research more about prosecutions for religious practices in the Caribbean.   Thousands of people in the Caribbean have been subject to prosecution for their religious and spiritual healing practice, since the first law against obeah was passed in Jamaica during slavery, until the recent past. As well as the obeah laws, which still exist in many Caribbean countries, there have also been laws against specific religious groups, including the Spiritual Baptist faith, which was outlawed for a substantial part of the twentieth century in Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent, and Grenada. Other people faced prosecution for independent religious and healing work under laws against practicing medicine without a license, vagrancy, and ‘night noises’, among others.

In 1951, an African-American woman died in Baltimore, America. She was called Henrietta Lacks. These are cells from her body. They were taken from her just before she died. They have been growing and multiplying ever since. There are now billions of these cells in laboratories around the world. If massed together, they would weigh 400 times her original weight. These cells have transformed modern medicine, but they also became caught up in the politics of our age. They shape the policies of countries and of presidents. They even became involved in the cold war because scientists were convinced that in her cells lay the secret to how to conquer death. “It was not like an ordinary cancer. This was different, this didn’t look like cancer. It was purple and it bled very easily on touching. I’ve never seen anything that looked like it and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything that looked like it since, so it was a very special different kind of, well, it turned out to be a tumor.” –Dr...

Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy 's              HISTORY FORUM Febbruary 8th at 4:30 pm in the New Bruce St. John Room [located in the Humanities Quadrangle] Dr. Tara Inniss will present a paper entitled:   "'American money... English money... and a few Dutch dollars': Migration, Identity and the Saba-Barbados Connection, 1860-1920"   ABSTRACT In 2010, the island of Saba in the former Netherlands Antilles officially became closer politically to the Kingdom of the Netherlands when it became a special municipality. Although Dutch is the official language of the island, every local Saban speaks English almost exclusively.   The island’s cultural and economic connections to the English-speaking Caribbean date to the island’s permanent settlement of English-speaking colonists in 1665. Transferred between the English, French and D...