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Why We Need a Global Narrative of Slavery
Dec 21 2022
By Jim Walvin, author of A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global PowerLike most apprentice historians, I learned my trade on a specific, narrow area of study: the history of a single Jamaican slave plantation. At that time, in the late 60’s, slavery was not a commo
Getting the Shares ‘Bug’: What Financial History Teaches Us About British Society Today
Dec 20 2022
By Amy Edwards, author of Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary BritainMy friends and family sometimes ask me why I have chosen to spend the last ten years of my life studying the history of finance. It’s a good question. To them I’m sure it seems a bit of an odd f
How American Emigrants in Britain Defined the National Image
Feb 12 2021
By Stephen Tuffnell, author of Made in Britain: Emigration and Nation in Nineteenth-Century AmericaLondon’s underground map is now globally ubiquitous. Part electrical schematic, part Mondrian neo-plasticism it is perhaps one of the city’s most recognisable cultural artefacts. T-shirts, frid