Exploring the true story of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches
Sadly, the podcast has come to an end. However, there is still so much to learn and discover about t
Moya and Kris Manjapra discuss his book Black Ghost of Empire, a revelatory historical indictment of
As abolitionist campaigns gained traction in the late 1700s, the population of formerly enslaved peo
At the height of the British slave trade, there were no cameras to capture the experiences of the ch
In the last episode, ‘Abolition, Now part 1’, I was talking with Historian Diana Patton about the r
Most people know the basics of this moment. Josiah Wedgewood made some pottery, William Wilberforce
In southwest London, there is an area that plays an outsized role in British history. Today, if you
Like Scotland, Ireland was another notch on England’s colonial bedpost, ruled from England continuou
Why do we swim? It’s not new, we’ve been swimming for 10,000 years… apparently. But why? We don’t
I love fitness. I love sports. I go to the gym, I walk, I run, I cycle. In my youth, I played team g
In this episode we’re venturing onto the bustling city streets of 18 century London, trying to uncov
In the last episode, we looked at the women in Jamaica who owned slaves, both British colonists and
Women made up 40% of slaveowners across the Caribbean – and although historians have had to dig even
At the centre of the system of chattel slavery, was the body. Not the mind, not the soul but the phy
The Hippocratic Oath isn’t universal. But in the 18th century, the Oath began to be more widely used
Human civilization only began about 6,000 years ago. As author Emma Dabiri writes in her 2021 book,
We’re back to a well-trodden theme: following the money to understand how Scotland’s national develo
In the first of our episodes spotlighting Scotland’s slaving history, we went big and broad. Now it’
When we talk about the ‘British’ Empire and the ‘British’ slave trade, it’s easy to forget that Engl
In part 1 of Origin Stories, we explored the dominant narratives around the beginning of the transat
