Tag: Caribbean Behind the scenesThe Golden Thread with Michelle RodriguesWednesday 4 September 2024Iqbal Singh and Dr Chloe Lee caught up with Michelle to find out how...Records and research‘Curating crises’: Exploring histories of knowledge about volcanoes in the CaribbeanMonday 13 November 2023This summer saw the close of a two-year research project exploring the history of...Records and researchRoy Sawh: From Where I StandMonday 14 August 2023In 1967, Sawh was put on trial under The Race Relations Act. Today, we...Archives and archivistsLife and work in Jamaica in 1938: ‘Like seeds falling on a stony ground’Monday 12 June 2023Little is known about the writer, but their letter provides a powerful perspective on...Records and researchLegacies of Chinese indenture aboard the Empire Windrush in 1948Wednesday 31 May 2023As Migration and Citizenship researcher, I've been tracing the stories of passengers...Records and researchThe Colonial Office vs the Daily Telegraph: The case of Dominican stowawaysMonday 20 June 2022February 26th 1960 was a seemingly innocuous day in the annals of British colonial history....Records and researchThe land of milk and honey?Monday 29 November 2021In the late 1940s many West Indians travelled to Britain seeking employment. This diaspora,...Records and research20sPeople: ‘A Stranger in a Strange Place’Tuesday 9 November 2021‘A Stranger in a Strange Place’ follows on from ‘Once British Always British’, two...Records and researchHome truths: Improving community relations by funding trips to Commonwealth countriesFriday 22 October 2021In 1969 the Central Office of Information (COI) made a film about a scheme...Records and researchJourneying: Indian Indenture – working therapeutically to address archival silencesFriday 11 June 2021In October 1884, troops opened fire on a procession of Indians in Trinidad that...Records and researchSearching for Cliff TyrellThursday 28 January 2021Much has been written about the relationship between the Caribbean and Britain, particularly around...Records and research‘The Great Experiment’: Explaining the advent of indenture to the West IndiesTuesday 26 January 2021Between the abolition of slavery in 1834 and the First World War, more than... 1 2 »