Lottie Finds Heritage, By Sandra Browne

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.bb

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Call for Contributors: A Guide to Slave Route Sites of Memory in the Caribbean

 

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 often uncovered relationship of relationship of sites, usually valued on account of their architectural, artistic and aesthetic values, to slavery and the slave trade. Many Caribbean sites, alongside those in Europe, Africa and the Americas, played essential roles in the slave trade as centres of black presence, slaving ports and intellectual breeding grounds for ideas of racism and divinely ordained slavery as well as for equality and freedom. They served as homes of financiers and patrons and benefited greatly from the slave trade’s revenues, which in turn allowed for the construction of grandiose buildings and monuments. Furthermore, Africans, both freed and enslaved, often worked as artists or craftsmen and “exotic” artistic motifs can be identified in monuments, buildings and historic towns. These relationships, which up until now have only discreetly revealed themselves to an informed eye, must be openly acknowledged and identified.

 

The scope of this publication seeks to build on various past Slave Route Project initiatives to develop a working tool for cultural resource managers and interested members of the general public to identify slave route sites across the Caribbean.

 

This encyclopaedic guide to Slave Route sites of memory that have been identified around the region will provide a range of readers access to insightful information about each site in its historical context. It will be accessible to both academic and popular audiences which are interested in having a comprehensive picture of slave route heritage sites so they may develop a good understanding of the complexities and nuances of the slave trade and slavery throughout the region.

 The Editors of this new publication now invite Expressions of Interest from potential contributors to the publication. Please send an e-mail with your name and institutional affiliation (if any) to slaverouteguidecaribbean@gmail.com if you wish to receive more information about this publication. The deadline for Expressions of Interest is December 10, 2013.

Womanish Ways Documentary Screening This Friday

The BMHS Celebrates the Centenary of the Opening of the Panama Canal, Panama Tour August 12-19, 2014

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.

Professorial Lecture Series: Prof. Evelyn O'Callaghan on Landscapes

Welcome Back to The History Forum, 2013-14

National Heroes Day Tour of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison

From the Margins to the Main: Breaking New Ground...

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!

A Special Graduate History Forum

The History Forum: Land Use (and Fishing) in the Island of Mustique

Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy's

HISTORY FORUM

on 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"

NPR: Listen to a Radio Interview with Andrea Stuart on her new book Sugar in the Blood

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

This Week's History Forum: A Monument to a Barbadian Hero: Errol Barrow

Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy's

HISTORY FORUM

on 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"

This Week's History Forum

Welcome to the Department of History and Philosophy's

HISTORY FORUM

on 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"

 

Launch and the Master Class in Creative Non-Fiction

Sugar in the Blood Book Launch

Professorial Lecture Series: Praxis and Malpractice

This Week's History Forum

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"

Launch of the 2013 BMHS Lecture Series

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.

The Launch of the British Slave-ownership Website with access to the Slave Compensation Database

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.

Britain's legacy of slavery (UCL): Catherine Hall on Abolition, Compensation, Narrative and the Enslaved Voice

A Response to the Proposed National Curriculum in History in the UK | History Workshop

 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 Response to the Proposed National Curriculum in History | History Workshop

Confronting Barbados' Colonial Past: Reclaiming Heritage

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.

 

The Island of Saba - Percy sounds the Conch

This Week's History Forum: Professor Sir Woodville Marshall

 

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"

Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840): The Moral Dilemma of an Abolitionist Slave Owner

 

Obeah Histories

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.

The Way of All Flesh by Adam Curtis

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. Howard Jones, Gynecologist.

This Week's History Forum: The Saba-Barbados Connection

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 Dutch, the island became officially part of the Dutch Crown in 1816. However, unlike other Dutch colonies which thrived as cosmopolitan freeports, Saba has retained most of its cultural, linguistic and economic ties with the ‘English Atlantic.’

 

During the 19^th and 20^th centuries, the small island of Saba developed connections to several English-speaking territories, including Barbados, in the era of maritime trade and travel. This paper explores some post-emancipation relationships between Saba and Barbados from 1860 to 1920. Using oral history interviews as well newspapers, genealogical and immigration records, this paper investigates connections between the Dutch Caribbean and the English-speaking Atlantic that shaped identities and built economies.

 

Sabans were some of the pre-eminent schooner captains in the post-emancipation interisland trade. Several captains, ship-owners and their families settled in Barbados, which was considered a major maritime-mercantile hub.  In addition to the economic reasons for re-location, Saban seafarers were also attracted to educational opportunities in the island, and especially English-language instruction. Helping to bolster Saba’s foundering economy in the early 20^th century, remittances and continued trade connections also assisted families. Although representing a very small percentage of Caribbean migrations over the period, the Saban migrations can help researchers to understand how economic motivations are often shaped by cultural identit(ies).