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Human Resources
Exploring the true story of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches every part of the nation. Hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean, a journalist and descendent of both Black African Slaves and White slave owners or overseers.
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Our New Book is Out!
Sadly, the podcast has come to an end. However, there is still so much to learn and discover about the links between modern Britain and the Transatlan...
In Conversation with Kris Manjapra
Moya and Kris Manjapra discuss his book Black Ghost of Empire, a revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic wor...
A Free Town
As abolitionist campaigns gained traction in the late 1700s, the population of formerly enslaved people grew. Those who had been enslaved in the Briti...
Think of the Children
At the height of the British slave trade, there were no cameras to capture the experiences of the children who found themselves forced into enslavemen...
Abolition, Now part 2
In the last episode, ‘Abolition, Now part 1’, I was talking with Historian Diana Patton about the real timeline of Aboliton and what Abolition really...
Abolition, Now part 1
Most people know the basics of this moment. Josiah Wedgewood made some pottery, William Wilberforce made some speeches, John Newton wrote Amazing Grac...
A Tale of Two Pews
In southwest London, there is an area that plays an outsized role in British history. Today, if you walk through Clapham, you will be greeted by forme...
The Colony's Colony
Like Scotland, Ireland was another notch on England’s colonial bedpost, ruled from England continuously since the Tudors re-established the Kingdom of...
Introducing Physical Capital: Swimming
Why do we swim?
It’s not new, we’ve been swimming for 10,000 years… apparently. But why? We don’t live in the water and so...
In The Ring
I love fitness. I love sports. I go to the gym, I walk, I run, I cycle. In my youth, I played team games. And everyone said I was good at sports becau...
Everyday People
In this episode we’re venturing onto the bustling city streets of 18 century London, trying to uncover the traces of the Black individuals who became...
In Absentia
In the last episode, we looked at the women in Jamaica who owned slaves, both British colonists and the formerly enslaved women who codified their fre...
GIRLBOSSES
Women made up 40% of slaveowners across the Caribbean – and although historians have had to dig even harder to pull together a picture of their lives,...
The Dis-carded
At the centre of the system of chattel slavery, was the body. Not the mind, not the soul but the physical vessel necessary to carry out backbreaking l...
Hippocrits
The Hippocratic Oath isn’t universal. But in the 18th century, the Oath began to be more widely used in medical schools across the British Empire and...
Inventing Race
Human civilization only began about 6,000 years ago. As author Emma Dabiri writes in her 2021 book, cheekily titled ‘What White People Can Do Next’, i...
Winners and Losers
We’re back to a well-trodden theme: following the money to understand how Scotland’s national development was shaped by the slave trade – and who the...
Bairns
In the first of our episodes spotlighting Scotland’s slaving history, we went big and broad. Now it’s time to get personal, to uncover the individual...
Taking the High Ground
When we talk about the ‘British’ Empire and the ‘British’ slave trade, it’s easy to forget that England – although the central seat of power – was not...
Origin Stories part 2
In part 1 of Origin Stories, we explored the dominant narratives around the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. But within every accepted hist...
Origin Stories part 1
Before the 400-odd years of the triangular trade, the plantations, the whips, the Sunday markets, the racial science. What were the first stirrings of...
In The Middle
The journey of the Middle Passage is one of the most evocative images of slavery, taught in schools as an example of brutality. It was the sea voyage...
All Aboard
When Britain’s railways are placed within the context of the empire they helped to maintain, they are framed as one of the only ‘good’ legacies of imp...
Right of Way
The image of ‘England’s green and pleasant land’ is one that has endured for centuries, but is this land really for everyone?
Royally Flush part 2
Did the Slave rebellions play a part in the British Monarchy's stance on abolition?
Featuring author and associate professor of History at Virgi...
Royally Flush part 1
The British monarchy is one of the oldest and most resilient in the world. In this episode, we explore their links with the slave trade and just how i...
Introducing: We Were Always Here
Have you been missing Human Resources? Us too! Our new series will be coming soon but if you're looking for a podcast in the meantime, we think you'll...
Dirty Money
In the final episode of the season, we focus in on the UK's financial centre, the Bank of England, and how one of the bank's governers was tied up wit...
Woolly Morals part 2
Following on from part 1, we now look at Welsh Cloth's journey into the Caribbean and learn more about the enslaved people who wore it.
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The Pubs Are Open!
Can the Greene King pub chain and its founder Benjamin Greene help us understand the rise of Britain's pub culture and its links with the Transatlanti...
City with a Slaving Past
Liverpool is a city that appears to be leading the way with how it is reconciling its history. In this episode, we look at what we can learn from Live...
Woolly Morals part 1
The picturesque County of Powys in Wales, had an abstruse but vital role in the Slave trade. We uncover how everyday families got swept up in the busi...
A Sour Taste
For some, chocolate can provide a pure moment of escapism, for others, it's a luxurious treat. But how is one of Britain's best-known brands; 'Cadbury...
Lords of the Manor
How is Drayton Manor Theme Park in Staffordshire, the Metropolitan Police, and the modern Conservative party connected? Sir Robert Peel Jr, that's how...
The Tree of Life
In Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth near Grantham, Lincolnshire is a house, Woolsthorpe Manor and within the grounds of this house, an apple tree. The very...
Where there's a Will, there's a Way
We begin our journey in Herefordshire. Kington, specifically, to discover the story behind Lady Hawkins' School and its links to Sir John Hawkins, Bri...
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