Instrumento musical de viento, confeccionado de piedra talco (esteatita) con 1 canal circular interno que se hace más fino en la parte inferior y dos asas de forma circular perforadas en el centro. Similar al silbato, posee una sola nota. Presenta faltantes en la parte superior e inferior. Recoplectadi en San José -Quintrehueque. Wind musical instrument made of talc stone (soapstone) with 1 internal circular channel that is made thinner at the bottom and two circular perforated handles in the center. Similar to the whistle, it has a single note. It has gaps at the top and bottom. Recoplectadi in San José -Quintrehueque.
Artefacto aerófono similar a la flauta, confeccionado de piedra talco (esteatita) con 2 canales. Recopilado en Valdivia en Quinta Kramer el 21 de marzo de 1991 y re-armada en abril de 1991. Flute-like aerophone artifact made of talc stone (soapstone) with 2 channels. Compiled in Valdivia at Quinta Kramer on March 21, 1991 and re-assembled in April 1991.
Museum documenting city's history as 18th-century pirate base, with replica pirate ship & exhibits.
Plancha con la inscripción S4 (indica tamaño y modelo), palabra ininteligible y la palabra BARATO. Iron with inscription S4 (indicates size and model), unintelligable word, and the word CHEAP.
Polar bear skull from the collections in the Bell Pettigrew Natural History, part of the Museums of the University of St Andrews.
Polar bear skull - The Bell Pettigrew Natural History Museum - Teaching Collection, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
The main Police Force of Barbados was established in 1835. The Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF), as established under the Police Act, of 1961, and the Constitution of Barbados is a part of the government responsible for local law enforcement. The RBPF is divided into three territorial divisions, the Operations Support Division, the Administrative Support Division and the Criminal Investigations Division. The organisation structure of the RBPF is modeled after London’s Metropolitan Police Service. The prefix “Royal” was added to the title of the Police Force in February 1966 due to a visit by the Queen. Since that time, “Royal” has remained as part of the name and identity of the force.
Pontificia Universidad católica del Perú
Porpoise Skull - Bell Pettigrew Museum Teaching Collection
Porpoise skull from the collections in the Bell Pettigrew Natural History, part of the Museums of the University of St Andrews.
Whales are common in the North Atlantic, and since ancient times people have used their meat and oil. In regions with no trees, bones were fashioned into household items that would usully be made from timber; this handled cup is made from a backbone. It is unfinished, and you can see the inside isn’t fully hollowed-out. Early People gallery ARC 85130
Stuart McPhail Hall, Jamaican-born British cultural theorist and academic (born Feb. 3, 1932, Kingston, Jamaica — died Feb. 10, 2014, London, England), was a pioneer in the field of cultural studies, an interdisciplinary approach to the role of social institutions in the shaping of culture and “the networks of meanings which individuals and groups use to make sense of and communicate with one another.” Hall attained international stature in 1979 when he coined the term “Thatcherism” to describe the phenomenon of the broad (and ultimately long-lasting) political, economic, and cultural changes that would eventually be wrought by incoming Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her conservative supporters. He later chastised leftist thinkers and politicians for underestimating Thatcherism’s enduring popularity among disillusioned working-class people and for failing to counter the harshest elements of Thatcherism with a compelling alternative that would promote multiculturalism, environmentalism, and civil rights.
Sir Kenneth Stuart was educated at Harrison College in Barbados and Queens University in Belfast. Sir Kenneth served as Professor and Dean of the Department of Medicine at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica; a consultant at University Hospital, Jamaica ; and consultant adviser to the Wellcome Trust. He also served as a past medical adviser to the Commonwealth Secretariat ,London, and as the Honorary Medical and Scientific Adviser to the Barbados High Commission. A former Chairman of the Court of Governors of the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of the council of Governors of Guys’, Kings and St. Thomas’s Hospitals Medical School, London, Sir Kenneth has published many articles in medical journals on hepatic and cardiovascular disorders. In a letter to ‘The Independent’ in 1996 he called for a national council to respond to emerging medical issues, issues that could not be left entirely to doctors, scientists and lawyers. “It is time that society gave Tiers attention to the processes (other than the current ‘fire- alarm approaches) by which such questions might be dealt with in the future. There is clearly a need for some form of National Ethical Council with a wide-ranging membership, whose role would not only be to review the issues that stemmed or seemed likely to stem from medical scientific advance ” he wrote, "but also to promote community understanding and discussion of them.” Sir Kenneth Stuart is a member of the Academic Board of St. George’s University and a member of the Board of Directors of the UK Trust for the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation(WINDREF). He is also a patron of Doctors for Human Rights and trustee of London Lighthouse. In 1986, he received an Honorary DSc from Queen’s University in Belfast.
Programa de Museos Regionales y Comunitarios - Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
Programa de Museos Regionales y Comunitarios - Museo Nacional de Costa Rica | Regional and Community Museums Programme - National Museum of Costa Rica
Réplica aspa para enrollar lana / Aspawe - Wool winder replica
Utencilio doméstico hecho con caña de quila, utilizado para armar/madejar lana (puede ser confeccionado con maderas variadas). Household utensil made with quila cane, used to assemble / skein wool (can be made with various woods).
Réplica rastra de clavo - Harrow Replica
Réplica de un utencilio de madera, alargado y con cabeza triangular, para las faenas agrico-las, por medio del arrastre por tracción animal para la formación de zanjas para el cultivo. Replica of an elongated wooden utensil with a triangular head, for agricultural tasks, by means of animal traction dragging to form ditches for cultivation.
restoration of the surface of the baths
The Society for the Resettlement of Caribbean Nationals. Migration story of the Larrier / Lashley family From: Rev. Buddy A. Larrier Thank you for allowing me to share part of my family migration story with you as part of the project. Further to the interview of Wednesday, April 17, 2019 this is a brief written account of part of our story with some photos and two documentaries as evidence of that experience. Politics of Madness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-QMLJD5vQ&feature=em-upload_owner Pride & Unity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7lsBPb-ElY&feature=em-upload_owner Migration & the Impact on my Family Unit Part of the legacy of chattel enslavement was the emergence of dysfunctional families. The early part of the 1900s saw many Barbadians emigrating, including my three uncles who went to the USA, they were among the estimated 40 to 50 thousand Barbadians, (1/3 of the population), that went to Panama and the USA during the building of the Panama Canal. Emigration of such large numbers of men, in particular, would have put pressure on the family unit. The Panama Canal was officially opened in 1914. During the latter half of the 1900s, even with dysfunctional families and high unemployment, resulting from slavery and colonialism the process of rebuilding the culture and value system of African family was taking root. Families were being rebuilt with the strong African qualities which existed prior to slavery. Before the experience of our enslavement Africa had no old peoples’ homes, relatives took care of their elders, neither were there any children orphanages, the community took care of the children and there were no cases of incest in families or same-sex relationships, neither were violence and crime part of the village community life. We were beginning to reconstruct our families on these principles. However, the process was severely disrupted by Hurricane Janet of 1955 that devastated Barbados, causing the deaths of some 38 persons including my father Darnell Larrier. By 1955 my mother Minnie who was a community midwife had given birth to four other children; she was now a widow with 11 children. Our grandmother Matilda Linton, who was 80 years old at the time of Hurricane Janet and who had experienced the effects of the 1898 great hurricane that also devastated Barbados, was a source of inspiration and helped our immediate family and also the extended family unit. Our family received much assistance, not only from the community but as a blessing from the Highest God, which came through the government’s intervention. Fortunately for the family, a new political party had been recently formed, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), that had broken away from the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in power. The political climate allowed the government, with support from the DLP to pledge support to the victims of the hurricane. Migration of Barbadians Immediately following Hurricane Janet, which also impacted significantly on other Caribbean islands, many Barbadians estimated at approximately 30,000 emigrated to the USA, Canada, and to England where the majority went. This mass exodus from Barbados between 1955 and the 1970s severely impacted on the restructuring process of dysfunctional family units as fathers and other senior male figures in particular emigrated, putting much pressure on the females, similar to what occurred during the building of the Panama Canal between 1904 -14. In addition to the practical assistance our family received from the community and the government, Pearline, who was my father eldest child from our mother (he had two other children from previous relationships) also received a special gift. She was granted a free passage to England by a businessman after making a pledge of commitment that she would work and help her siblings. Pearline at age 19 years old was given a pioneering role usually reserved for males, which she carried out confidently, securing accommodation and work opportunities for siblings and other family members who follow her to England. Over the years, all of my mother children have had the opportunity to travel and all but one have lived outside of Barbados for extended periods. Our mother lived to witnessed all 11 of her children being married, and most of the children from 10 brothers and sister were born abroad. Pearline is the only one that has had no children of her own but was blessed with being considered mother of many. Before making her transition on October 11, 1999 age 88 years old, our mother was privileged to have traveled to the USA, Canada, England, Guyana and Trinidad on vacation or to visit relatives. When Hurricane Janet hit Barbados in 1955 six of my siblings were under the age of 16 years old. The government established a social fund and programmes to provide assistance to impoverish families that had suffered great loss from Hurricane Janet, each of my siblings that were under the age of 16 years old benefit from the programme. Our family was not the only one that was given help by the government and Pearline was not the only person to be given a free passage to England. However, to the best of my knowledge, our family is the only one that returned and thanked the government and people of Barbados for the assistance we received. A Visionary is Born I made my entrance into the world on Friday, July 2, 1943 – the same day of the week and the same date of the month as my grandmother, and we both share the same date of birth with my mother. I am the seventh of the eleven children of Darnell and Minnie Larrier. I received my education at the Christ Church Boys Primary School. I left school at the age of 15 years old and took up tailoring. Through the government’s programme of assistance to the family, I was given an apprenticeship grant for training in tailoring, which was my first choice. The brother before me Doreston accepted plumbing as his choice and the brother after me Euclime chose painting. Both later became professionals in their disciplines in Canada and the USA respectively. As a self-employed tailor working from home I was very popular with my peers and with the women who would seek my help with making clothes for their children. It was, therefore, a challenge for me to immigrate to England at age 20, on November 5, 1963, to work with the London Transport Board as a Bus Conductor, a job I would not have done in Barbados. At the time us conducting was one of the best available jobs on offer to immigrants going to England. Barbados was the only country from which workers were recruited, mainly bus conductors and train guards to work for the London Transport Board. Applicants had to attend evening classes for three months with exams and an interview before being accepted. Young women were recruited for the hospitals to be train as nurses and also general workers were recruited for Lyons Company and other local business. I left Barbados by plane on November 5, 1963, just two months after my first child Andrew was born on October 26, 1963; it was heart-wrenching to leave him and his mother. My arrival in England was a shock to my system as this was the first time I had experience continuous cold weather and a very hostile environment fuelled by racial prejudice. Nevertheless, one year later in 1964, I send for the mother of my son to join me in England as my wife, leaving our son to be cared for by my mother. Like most Barbadians who immigrated to England during this period I had hopes of returning home with lots of money within five years as we were led to believe that the street of London was paved with gold. Very few, if any of us had long term plans for living in England. Because of the relationship my mother and I had I promised her that if I did not return home in five years I would send for her for a holiday, which I did in June 1968 so that we could spend our birthday together. By 1968 two other children both girls were added to the family. My mother who would have been one of the very few working-class Barbadians who went to England in the 1960s on holiday was so concerned about the social conditions she saw that she insisted on taking the two girls age 3 years and I year old back to Barbados with her. By the time I got married to my first wife, Benadine in 1968 there were six of our siblings in England, all of whom at the wedding:- I made my first visit back to Barbados for a holiday in December 1969. From 1967 I was a Bus driver but my yearning for home and the struggle against racism was still with me. Therefore, in 1972 I resigned from the London Transport Board and returned to Barbados with the intention of resettling as I was very unhappy with the high incidences of racism in England. However, my eldest sister Pauline who had lived in England from 1955 and also worked as a bus conductor before relocating to the USA was on vacation, and she persuaded me to join her in New York. Within one week of my arrival in the ‘Big Apple the city that never sleeps’, in December 1972, I was held at gunpoint. That experience convinced me that the USA was not for me. Pauline tried to console me by sharing some family history and to assure me that I have a special work to do. She informed me that my birth date being the same as our mother and grandmother is not coincidental that our grandmother was a very spiritual woman and that she had a vision in 1941 about my birth. I was encouraged by her words of comfort but in 1974 after one year in the USA, I returned to Britain via Barbados and rejoined London Transport Board as a Bus driver. Three years later, in 1977 I had an epiphany as one chosen as a medium for a message to the community that needed to be communicated from the spirit realm, with implications for the people of the world. I was lifted up with a similar experience to that which Pauline had informed me that our grandmother Matilda had in 1941. It took me some 13 years until 1990 before I had gained the confidence to penned my proposal of a better world the world leaders. On reflection, I have accepted that I was inspired with insights into the future and of the role Barbados and our family would play in that future, which is summarised: • I was shown ‘a vivid picture of a New Political and Economic Order for the 21st century based on truth, justice, and peace; • That there will be a new political awakening for Barbadian and other people of the Caribbean region, as leaders in world affairs; • I was commissioned to unite our family as a single unit and that by doing so it would lead towards African family unity; • I was informed of the acquisition of economic power by ‘black people and; • The end of Apartheid in South Africa and of the global oppression of ‘White Supremacy’ (Racism)”. My epiphany and spiritual insights occurred while recovering in hospital from a tendon graft operation on the little finger of my right hand. In 1976 while at a friend’s birthday party, I was cutting ice with a knife and accentually severed the tendon of the little finger. The cut healed but there was pain in the pam of my hand, where all the tendons meet. My doctor referred me to Lewisham hospital and I was persuaded by the consultant to allow him to perform a tendon graft to fix the problem, little did I know that the surgery was experimental in nature; it was later deemed to have been ill-advised, unnecessary and was unsuccessful. It caused me much discomfort. Two weeks after the surgery I visited my siblings in North London and while there I was in great pain and they suggested that I return to the hospital outpatient department. I was accompanied by my sister Pearline who was back in England on vacation from Canada and a brother and a friend. After being examined by the doctor, and while waiting on my brother and the friend to return from the shop where they went for a snack, Pearline and I had a quarrel, which was misunderstood by others. The Police were called, and I was arrested and taken back into the hospital, I was sedated by injection and transferred to Bexley mental hospital. I had no previous history of mental illness but was detained unjustly under section 25 of the 1959 Mental Health Act for 28 days, which could have been extended for up to one year under section 26. The 1959 Mental Health Act was used disproportionately against black people. However, within three weeks I achieved what is to this day considered most extraordinary. Realising what was planned for me by the doctors that would have damaged my brain permanently (electric treatment) I demanded to be released and was released on demand. I took the action because a family friend had visited me and a few days earlier and told me he did not like how I had look. Also within a week of my detention, my mother had arrived in England to assure me that nothing was wrong with me. My challenge to the consultant was the first time such a demand was made in the history of the United Kingdom. I have since challenged the authorities for violation of my human rights, which ended my bus driving career with London Transport. I started litigations against the Health Authority in 1978. My case is still lodged in the High Courts. The first two television documentaries on Mental Health human rights violations to have been aired in Britain: Patients or Prisoners (1979) and Skin Racism & Mental Health (1981) were made, due to my experience. The senior consultant at the mental hospital in a letter to the Divisional Medical Officer of London Transport dated July 12, 1977, included the following: “He responded to Phenothiazine medication but retained his conviction that he was being influenced by spiritual forces, and some of his plans for his family were rather grandiose. The diagnosis remains uncertain in this case but he appears to have had an effective psychotic experience”. The ‘rather grandiose’ plans for my family that the consultant referred to were my intention to unite my family. To the consultant, this was a symptom of madness. That experience not only cost me my job and P.S.V class I driving license but I also loosed the affection of my loved ones and the respect of friends and colleagues. Within one year of my consciousness awakening, I organised a family reunion of July 2, 1978, to celebrate Mum’s birthday. Some family members had not seen each other in 23 years - since Hurricane Janet of 1955. The reunion was a great experience; it also set a precedent for family reunions in Barbados. However, it was not the success that I saw in my vision and was commissioned to achieve, as two brothers were not present. Being committed to my mission I was determined that there must be a reunion at which all of my siblings would be present. Therefore, I embarked on a process of traveling and conversing with family members about another reunion. All but one brother Winfield was for it. He was seen as the one that would hinder the process. He did not attend the 1978 reunion and bets were out that he would not attend the one being planned. I had different plans and assure all that he will be present. He had not visited Barbados since he left in 1957 and Mum was on my case to ensure that he came back before she dies, I gave her my word that I will get him back home. When the date was set for the next reunion I got his passport renewed, booked his passage and presented him with the ticket, and warned him of the consequences of not attending the reunion. After eight years from 1978 and much planning the second reunion was held again on July 2, 1986, this time all living siblings were present. It took me many years to rebuild my life but my commitment remains to de-stigmatize mental illness. I was a founder member of the first Afro-Caribbean Mental Health Organisation in England. I also established or was co-founder of a number of other organisations. I was Chairman of the local mental health organisation in the London borough of Lewisham and a council member of the National Association for Mental Health (MIND). I represented MIND at the mental health world conference held in Cairo Egypt in 1987. I also established a trust to raise funds to take my case to court in an effort to prove that the 1959 Mental Health Act was had violated my human rights. Links between the mental institution and the Prison My activism against the system finally led to my imprisonment in 1994 as a combination of my challenges to the mental health act and my activism for economic liberation. In January 1990 I penned a proposal which was sent to over 170 world leaders including International Non-governmental Organisations recommending that October 12 be designated a Universal Day of Hope for truth, justice, peace, healing and reconciliation. There were a number of positive responses to the proposal and taking inspiration from some of the replies a second edition was produced. It was then made public to the people of the world in a booklet. It took me many years to rebuild my life but my commitment remains to de-stigmatize mental illness. I was a founder member of the first Afro-Caribbean Mental Health Organisation in England. I also established or was a co-founder of and a number of other organisations. I was Chairman of the local mental health organisation in the London borough of Lewisham and a council member of the National Association for Mental Health (MIND). I represented MIND at the mental health world conference held in Cairo Egypt in 1987. I also established a trust to raise funds to take my case to court in an effort to prove that the 1959 Mental Health Act was had violated my human rights. Economic Freedom The proposal put forward for truth, justice, peace, healing and reconciliation included an economic programme, which was fully support by Barbadians and other Caribbean national living in England. Following these publications and my activism, in 1991 my wife who was a staff midwife at Greenwich District Hospital was arrested on SUS (Suspected person Act) to gain entrance to my home, which was also my office. Fortunately for us, I was at home when four (4) police officers with a search warrant arrived with my wife in handcuff, nothing illegal was found and they left with my wife still handcuff. In 1992 an individual gave me a third party cheque as an investment in the programme and after six days the bank cleared the cheque. Months later I used some of the money for travel to both the USA and Barbados to promote my work and the programme. On my return to London, I was arrested on the basis that the cheque was stolen. I was charged and there were two trials, the first was a split jury and at the second the judge misdirected the jury and I was found guilty. He then ordered a psychiatric assessment on me before imposing a nine-month jail sentence, which I spent in Belmarsh Top Security Prison. In prison, my civil rights were violated on 11 counts. There was an investigation and it was proven that my claims were factual. It was after these complaints that an inmate servicing a life sentence warned me that my life was in danger and that I should leave England if I did get out of prison alive. Within one month of my release, I left the UK and relocated back to Barbados. I intend on taking my case for human rights violation to the highest court.
Established in 1828, this former fort is a waterfront mall with a courtyard, stores & bars/eateries.
Barbados-born Roland Butcher secured his place in history when he became the first black player to represent England, making his Test debut at Bridgetown in 1980-81 (the headline in the local paper was "Our boy, their bat"). A batsman capable of playing the most thrilling, attacking innings, Butcher was sadly, and frustratingly, inconsistent, his compulsion to hit every ball hard and far usually his undoing. For every onslaught there were a dozen disappointments. More than once he saved his contract with Middlesex with a brilliant hundred. Butcher moved to England at the age of 14, joined Middlesex in 1974 and was picked for two ODIs against Australia in 1980 on the strength of county form. A run-a-ball fifty in the second game, allied to an unbeaten half-century in the Gillette Cup final that September, secured him a place on the tour of the Caribbean, but his technique against fast bowlers was exposed and he was never considered again. In 1983 he suffered a sickening injury which threatened his eyesight when struck by George Ferris, but he returned and continued to entertain and frustrate until he retired in 1990. One blemish in his final years was a brief involvement with the planned rebel tour of South Africa in 1989 - he withdrew when media reaction threatened the success of his benefit. As a fielder, he was among the best, either swooping in the outfield or, in latter years, in the slips. After retiring he pursued business interests as well as coaching a variety of sides, including Tasmania and Bermuda. In November, 2004 he was appointed director of sports at the University of the West Indies' Cave Hill Campus. He was also a good enough footballer to play semi-pro for Stevenage and Biggleswade
Rome Museum, located in Walker in the Parish of St. Andrew, is an extended collection of items and artefacts from Grenada’s past. Collected items range from fragments of ‘Janet’ houses to workers’ lunch boxes to an outside mud oven. The collection is a testament to the everyday lives of Grenadians from the 1950’s onwards covering all aspects of life. Galleries include Lifestyle and Sports, Work and Labour and Domestic. The Owner/Curator, Mr. Rome provides a guided tour through his galleries, relating personal anecdotes to bring his collection to life. A desire to educate others whilst preserving the lifestyle and culture of Grenadians lead to the museum’s establishment on the family’s land. El Museo Rome, ubicado en Walker en la parroquia de San Andrés, es una colección ampliada de artículos y artefactos del pasado de Granada. Los artículos recolectados van desde fragmentos de casas 'Janet' hasta cajas de comida para trabajadores y un horno de barro exterior. La colección es un testimonio de la vida cotidiana de los granadinos a partir de la década de 1950 que abarca todos los aspectos de la vida. Las galerías incluyen Forma de Vida y Deportes, Trabajo y Vida Doméstica. El propietario / curador, el Sr. Rome ofrece una visita guiada por sus galerías, relatando anécdotas personales para dar vida a su colección. El deseo de educar a otros mientras se preserva el estilo de vida y la cultura de los granadinos lleva al establecimiento del museo en la tierra de la familia.
Rudolph Malcolm Walker was born on September 28, 1939 in Trinidad, British West Indies. Walker broke many barriers as a performer, working extensively in theatre and becoming the first black person to star in a major television series. Walker, who arrived in Britain in 1960, established himself as a performer by working in repertory theatres across the country in the 1960s including the Mermaid Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse and the Malvern Theatre. He got his big break in 1972 when he was cast as the main character in the television series, Love Thy Neighbour. Although the show was considered controversial for its use of racist language, it was a popular series that was unprecedented on television at the time. Walker continued to work in theatre, performing at the Tricycle, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Royal Court and the Young Vic. He also appears regularly on the BBC television soap opera, Eastenders.
One of seven siblings, Russel Henderson grew up in Port Of Spain, Trinidad, initially learning to play the piano, and subsequently steel-pan. By 1948, at the age of 24, Henderson had achieved a fair amount of success with his jazz quartet in Trinidad and also began taking an interest in steel-pan, this being facilitated by meeting Beryl McBernie, who ran a theatre company and was championing steel-pan, an instrument hitherto stigmatised by its working class origins and association with gangs. On coming to England to study piano tuning in North London he soon began playing in clubs, and also formed a small steel-band with Sterling Betancourt and Max Cherrie. This steel-band achieved considerable success in various formats in the succeeding years and was the first such combo to play for royalty. Other notable musical associations at that time were with the calypsonian Lord Kitchener and trumpeter Leslie Hutchinson. Henderson is also credited as one of the founding fathers of the Notting Hill Carnival, which started as a marching band festival in London's Bayswater Road and Queensway. In 1966 he and his band were instrumental in establishing the Carnival as a national annual event. Reflecting on its initial success years later Henderson joked, "That was fantastic, let's do it again next year!" He is remembered with a blue plaque on Tavistock Road.
Samuel Selvon, in full Samuel Dickson Selvon, (born May 20, 1923, Trinidad — died April 16, 1994, Port of Spain), Caribbean novelist and short-story writer of East Indian descent, known for his vivid evocation of the life of East Indians living in the West Indies and elsewhere. He came to public attention during the 1950s with a number of other Caribbean writers, including V.S. Naipaul. Selvon worked as a wireless operator for a local branch of the Royal Navy during World War II on ships that patrolled the Caribbean; during a slack period he began to write poetry. In 1946 he went to work at the Trinidad Guardian. In 1950 he went to London, where he worked as a clerk for the Indian Embassy and wrote in his spare time. His first novel, A Brighter Sun (1952), describes East Indians and Creoles in Trinidad, their prejudices and mutual distrusts, and the effect of this animosity on a young man. It was the first time that an East Indian author had written with such quiet authority and simple charm about the life of these people. Its sequel, Turn Again Tiger (1958), follows the protagonist on a journey to his homeland. In this novel, which is perhaps his best, Selvon made extensive and striking use of dialect. The Lonely Londoners (1956) describes apparently naive immigrants living by their wits in a hostile city. His later works include a collection of short stories, Ways of Sunlight (1958), and the novels I Hear Thunder (1962), The Housing Lark (1965), Moses Ascending (1975), and Moses Migrating (1983), both sequels to The Lonely Londoners. Highway in the Sun (1991) is a collection of plays.
Born in Barbados on 30 October in 1934,Sam came to the United Kingdom in the 1950s and started his working life with London Transport as a conductor and later a driver of trolley and diesel buses. He worked with London Transport until 1986,when he was retired on medical grounds. His political and trade union activity started in 1958. He played a very active role in the 1958 bus strike and served on the Transport and General Workers Union until his retirement. He campaigned for changes to the 1968 Race Relations Act and stood on the Home Secretary’s Standing Advisory Council on Race Relations for seven years. In 1982 he became the first Black Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, having served as a Council Member of Council from 1968 to 1986, and Member of the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority. He served as a Member of Industrial Tribunals from 1976 until 1996, and on the Employment Appeals Tribunal from 1984, only retiring on 31 March 2005 at the age of seventy years. From 1967 he served as a Member and/or Chairman of a number of Statutory and Voluntary Bodies, Schools, Colleges, Polytechnics, and the Guildhall University, as well as commercial undertakings. He was a member of the London Employment Conciliation Committee of the Race Relations Board. He spearheaded the Twinning of Barbados with Hackney in 1982 and is a Founder Director Trustee of the Barbados UK Education Bursary Trust. In 2004 he was elected as Chairman of the Democratic Labour Party (UK), an Associate Branch of the Barbados Democratic Labour Party. He is a Trustee of the Hackney/Barbados Education Bursary Trust, Caribbean Families and Friends in Crisis, and was Chairman of the Errol Barrow Memorial Statue Fund. In 1976 he was awarded the MBE for services to Race and Community Relations and in 1984 admitted to the Freedom of the City of London. Appointed a Deputy of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, he served until 2010. He was the first recipient of the Caribbean Times Award and has played a significant role in the development of Carnival Arts and Steel Orchestra.
Born in Barbados on 30 October in 1934,Sam came to the United Kingdom in the 1950s and started his working life with London Transport as a conductor and later a driver of trolley and diesel buses. He worked with London Transport until 1986,when he was retired on medical grounds. His political and trade union activity started in 1958. He played a very active role in the 1958 bus strike and served on the Transport and General Workers Union until his retirement. He campaigned for changes to the 1968 Race Relations Act and stood on the Home Secretary’s Standing Advisory Council on Race Relations for seven years. In 1982 he became the first Black Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, having served as a Council Member of Council from 1968 to 1986, and Member of the Lea Valley Regional Park Authority. He served as a Member of Industrial Tribunals from 1976 until 1996, and on the Employment Appeals Tribunal from 1984, only retiring on 31 March 2005 at the age of seventy years. From 1967 he served as a Member and/or Chairman of a number of Statutory and Voluntary Bodies, Schools, Colleges, Polytechnics, and the Guildhall University, as well as commercial undertakings. He was a member of the London Employment Conciliation Committee of the Race Relations Board. He spearheaded the Twinning of Barbados with Hackney in 1982 and is a Founder Director Trustee of the Barbados UK Education Bursary Trust. In 2004 he was elected as Chairman of the Democratic Labour Party (UK), an Associate Branch of the Barbados Democratic Labour Party. He is a Trustee of the Hackney/Barbados Education Bursary Trust, Caribbean Families and Friends in Crisis, and was Chairman of the Errol Barrow Memorial Statue Fund. In 1976 he was awarded the MBE for services to Race and Community Relations and in 1984 admitted to the Freedom of the City of London. Appointed a Deputy of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, he served until 2010. He was the first recipient of the Caribbean Times Award and has played a significant role in the development of Carnival Arts and Steel Orchestra
Santa Rosa First People’s Community Museum
The Santa Rosa First Peoples Community is the only organized area of the Amerindian Survival in Trinidad and Tobago. The Community was formally recognized as representative of the Indigenous Amerindians of the twin-island state by the National Government in 1990. The community’s historical continuity is remarkable. The Santa Rosa First Peoples existed as a community since the early Spanish period, and before that, archaeological and proto-historical data indicate almost 5000 years of settlement in the island. This extraordinary continuity despite the extraordinary rupture of Spanish Conquest and Colonisation is the fundamental factor in the Community’s continuing and powerful indigenous self-identification. Our mission is to facilitate the unity and development of the First Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago (social, economic, cultural) through programmes of education, research and action, and collaboration with other sectors of the population, promoting a world view of harmony with the environment. La Comunidad de los Primeros Pueblos de Santa Rosa es la única área organizada de la Supervivencia Amerindia en Trinidad y Tobago. El gobierno nacional reconoció formalmente a la comunidad como representante de los amerindios indígenas del estado conformado por dos islas en 1990. La continuidad histórica de la comunidad es notable. Los Primeros Pueblos de Santa Rosa existían como una comunidad desde principios del período español, y antes de eso, los datos arqueológicos y protohistóricos indican casi 5000 años de asentamiento en la isla. Esta extraordinaria continuidad, a pesar de la extraordinaria ruptura de la conquista y colonización española, es el factor fundamental en la continua y poderosa autoidentificación indígena de la comunidad. Nuestra misión es facilitar la unidad y el desarrollo de los Primeros Pueblos de Trinidad y Tobago (social, económico, cultural) a través de programas de educación, investigación y acción, y colaboración con otros sectores de la población, promoviendo una visión del mundo en armonía con el medio ambiente.
This collaboration between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean is designed to facilitate the bringing together of rural communities, to enable the sharing of knowledge and experiences to protect their Cultural Heritage, increase social cohesion and enhance community memory. Esta colaboración entre Europa, América Latina y el Caribe está diseñada para facilitar la reunión de las comunidades rurales para permitir el intercambio de conocimientos y experiencias para proteger su Patrimonio Cultural, aumentar la cohesión social y mejorar la memoria de la comunidad. Cette collaboration entre l'Europe, l'Amérique latine et les Caraïbes vise à faciliter le rapprochement des communautés rurales, à permettre le partage des connaissances et des expériences pour protéger leur Patrimoine Culturel, accroître la cohésion sociale et renforcer la mémoire communautaire.
The Scottish Fisheries Museum tells the stories of the boats, fish and folk that have underpinned this nationally important industry from prehistoric times to the present. The museum thrives on its links to fishing communities around Scotland to care for and preserve its recognised collection and to deliver programmes, events and activities aimed at keeping traditional skills alive. El Scottish Fisheries Museum cuenta las historias de los barcos, peces e personas que han sostenido esta industria de importancia nacional desde la prehistoria hasta el presente. El museo se nutre de sus vínculos con las comunidades pesqueras de Escocia para cuidar y preservar su reconocida colección y ofrecer programas, eventos y actividades con el fin de mantener vivas las técnicas tradicionales.
Scottish Fisheries Museum/ El Museo Escocés de la Pesca
The Scottish Fisheries Museum was set up to celebrate the fishing heritage of Scotland. It is based in Anstruther, Fife, which was a very important fishing town up until the 20th century. The museum charts how, over time, the fishing industry came to be such a huge part of the lives of Scottish people. It shows the industry from both the sea and the shore - there are vast collections of items from the community, including photographs and domestic equipment, as well as a variety of fishing vessels, in both model and original form. El objetivo del Museo Escocés de la Pesca es celebrar el patrimonio pesquero de Escocia. El museo está situado en Anstruther, en el municipio de Fife, lo cual era un pueblo pesquero muy importante hasta el siglo XX. Muestra cómo, con el tiempo, la industria pesquera viene a ser una parte muy importante de la vida de la gente escocesa, y se ve la industria del mar y de la costa - hay colecciones vastas de objetos de la comunidad, incluso las fotografías y los artículos de menaje, además de buques pesqueros, en la forma original y de modelo.
El señuelo del pato de madera solía practicar tiro. Marcas de bala en la madera. Wooden duck decoy used to practice shooting. Bullet marks on the wood.
Sea turtle, part of the collection of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago. The National Museum and Art Gallery was established originally as the Royal Victoria Institute (RVI) in 1892 in commemoration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and as part of a general British Colonial policy to build cultural institutes throughout the Commonwealth. This is a general museum that has a permanent collection of over 10,000 items. Many of these are displayed in seven major galleries- Art, Social History, Natural History, Economic History, Petroleum and Geology.
This anthropomorphic figurine possibly depicts a carving of a bound ‘prisoner’. The artifact is made of conch shell and was discovered at Fresh Water Bay in St. Michael on the island’s West Coast.
Our Five Star, award winning Museum and Archives is a multifunctional visitor attraction in the heart of Shetland's capital town of Lerwick. Begin your journey through the history of our beautiful islands here, with an enjoyable and interactive visitor experience discovering our world renowned collections.
Part of the collection of the Unst Community Museum. For many hundreds of years Unst has been in the midst of one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. The small wooden boats fished for cod and ling which were cleaned, split, salted and dried on the stony beaches. The dried fish were then shipped abroad in massive quantities. Boats like the sixereen ‘FAR HAAF’ were capable of fishing thirty miles off shore., while sturdy fourereens fished nearer the coast. With the onset of sudden storms there were disastrous results.
Sir (Oshely) Roy Marshall was born on October 21, 1920. He was one of 6 children who lost their father when Roy was 10 years old. His mother Korine worked tirelessly to support and allow the family to thrive. He was educated at Harrison College, where he won the Barbados Scholarship in 1938. His further education was delayed through illness and World War II and it was not until 1942 that he entered Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours in 1945. He took a master’s in 1948 and was awarded a doctorate from University College, London in the same year. He was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1947. From 1946 until 1969, Sir Roy taught law full-time: from 1946 until 1956 as assistant lecturer and then lecturer at University College, London; from 1956 until 1963, and 1965 until 1969 as professor of law at the University of Sheffield; and from 1963 until 1965 as professor of law at the University of Ife in Nigeria, He was a constitutional advisor to the Government of Barbados at the Independence Talks with the United Kingdom in 1966 and one of the Law Revision commissioners responsible for the edition of laws published in 1974. In 1979, he drafted a comprehensive package of statutes on property and related matters for the island. In 1969,he began a new career in university administration, becoming vice-chancellor of the UWI and served until 1977. He was also secretary general of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom Universities from 1974 to 1979 and Vice­ Chancellor of the University of Hull from 1979 to 1985.After retirement, he entered yet another field, serving as High Commissioner for Barbados in London from 1989 to 1991. He served as Chair of the Commission for Law and Order appointed by the Government. At Cave Hill, the campus’ principal teaching facility is named the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex in his honour.
Sir Michael Ronald Stoute is a Barbadian British thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing. Stoute, (born 22 October 1945) whose father was the Chief of Police for Barbados, left the island in 1964 at the age of 19 to become an assistant to trainer Pat Rohan and began training horses on his own in 1972. Sir Michael Stoute began training in 1972. His first Classic victory came six years later with Fair Salinia in the 1978 Oaks, since when he has never ceased production of top-class winners from Freemason Lodge, Newmarket. Champion trainer ten times, he has won twenty five Classics in England and Ireland, including five Investec Derbies, three Breeders’ Cups, two Japan Cups and the Dubai World Cup. In 2010 the former Derby winner Workforce provided him with his first win in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Born in Trinidad in 1939, Trevor worked in various aspects of the media including local newspapers, radio and television. He joined the Caribbean Regional Service of the BBC World Service in 1960 as a producer, before moving to London at the end of that decade to work for the corporation (BBC Radio, London). Moving to Independent Television News (ITN) in 1973, he rose steadily through the ranks. He's served as news, sports and diplomatic correspondent before moving on to become diplomatic editor and newscaster. Twice voted Newscaster of the year, McDonald is perceived as the face of ITN after years of fronting its flagship 'News at Ten' bulletin. An accomplished journalist, he has penned several books including autobiographies on cricketers Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards. His own biography, 'Fortunate Circumstances', was published in 1993.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul TC, most commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and informally, Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidadian-British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in rural Trinidad on 17 August 1932. The island of his birth was a complicated post-colonial patchwork of racial tensions and subtle hierarchies. His grandparents had been labourers: part of the great nineteenth-century Indian diaspora who had settled in the Caribbean. The young Vidia was raised as a Hindu, part of a displaced community within a plantation society. It was a blend of histories, customs and ethnic identities which later formed an important part of his work. Naipaul's father, Seepersad, was a journalist for the Trinidad Guardian who revered Shakespeare and Dickens. He would read the great works of European literature aloud to his children - giving the young Vidia a burning ambition for writing, a "fantasy of nobility" and a "panic about failing.". He attended the Queen's Royal College, proving himself an able student. On graduating, he won a government scholarship giving him entry to the Commonwealth university of his choosing. In 1950, he arrived in Oxford. University College commencing a time of poverty and terrible loneliness. Isolated and unsure of his future, Naipaul became severely depressed For his numerous critics, Naipaul's writing was troubling and even bigoted. They recognised his literary gifts but saw him as a hater: an “Uncle Tom” who dealt in stereotypes, paraded his prejudices and bathed in loathing for the world from which he came. They hailed him as a towering intellect - delivering an original, scorching critique refreshingly devoid of political correctness: attacking the cruelty of Islam, the corruption of Africa and the self-inflicted misery he witnessed in the poorest parts of the globe. For his many supporters, his fiction had merciless comic clarity and his travel writing a terrifying honesty - refusing to glamorise or idealise the developing world, to his detractors, Naipaul was essentially political; bearing witness against the post-colonial world with great writing but shielded from criticism by virtue of being 'one of them'. In his later years, he entered an autumnal phase with The Enigma of Arrival (1987) and A Way in the World (1994), combining personal experience (though denying it was autobiographical) with the broad historical sweep of post-war migration from developing world. A knighthood followed. And In 2001, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Academy compared him to Joseph Conrad and extolled his ability to "transform rage into precision."
Small bowl, part of the collection of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago. The National Museum and Art Gallery was established originally as the Royal Victoria Institute (RVI) in 1892 in commemoration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and as part of a general British Colonial policy to build cultural institutes throughout the Commonwealth. This is a general museum that has a permanent collection of over 10,000 items. Many of these are displayed in seven major galleries- Art, Social History, Natural History, Economic History, Petroleum and Geology.
The University of St Andrews is Scotland's first university, founded in 1413. Like the University, its Museums are rooted in and draw inspiration from this 600-year history of research and teaching, and the pursuit of knowledge for the common good. The Museums' collections are of national and international interest and importance and consist of around 115,000 artefacts and specimens. Museum collections are featured at the Wardlaw Museum and the Bell Pettigrew Museum, stored and studied in a dedicated Collections Centre, displayed across the University campus, and lent for exhibition nationally and internationally.
St Pauls Carnival is an annual African Caribbean carnival held, usually on the first Saturday of July, in St Pauls, Bristol. The celebration began life in 1968 as the St Pauls Festival, when the idea was "to create an event to help improve relationships between the European, African, Caribbean and Asian inhabitants of the area."
Stephen Wiltshire MBE HON FSAI HON FSSAA
For over 30 years, the name Stephen Wiltshire has been synonymous with finely-detailed, vigorous pen and ink drawings of the world’s great cities. These drawings – often drawn from memory and at a great speed -are sketched on the spot at street level ,drawn from the top of skyscrapers or sometimes made after whistle-stop helicopter rides over the city. Stephen regularly travels all over the world on private and public commissions, the most famous of which are his ten city panoramas drawn from memory. His talent is even more incredible considering that he was diagnosed with autism when he was three years old. Born in London in 1974, Stephen was mute as a small child, and found it hard to relate to other people. At the age of five, he was sent to Queensmill School, London, where it soon became apparent that he communicated through the language of drawing. His teachers encouraged him to speak by temporarily taking away his art materials; eventually he uttered his first words – “paper” and “pencil” Oust like Picasso) – but didn’t learn to speak fully until the age of nine. As soon as Stephen’s school started to enter his art into competitions, news of his talent began to spread. Early fans included the late Prime Minister Edward Heath, who bought his drawing of Salisbury Cathedral, made when Stephen was eight. Stephen came to wider public attention when the BBC featured him in the programme, ‘The Foolish Wise Ones’ in 1987, when he was introduced by Sir Hugh as “the best child artist in Britain”. In 2005, he was commissioned to undertake vast panoramic drawings of ten world cities and in 2006 Stephen was recognised for his services to the art world, when he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. That year Stephen and his family opened a permanent art gallery in London’s historic Royal Opera Arcade.
Sterling Betancourt was born 1 March 1930 in Laventille, Trinidad. In his early years, he was a member of one of the local Laventille Tamboo Bamboo bands until he became a tenor pan player in Tripoli steel band. He later progressed to become a band member and the tuner for Crossfire, a steel band he was more notably associated to during the 1940s. His skills on the pans earned him selection for TASPO (The Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra) which was formed to participate in the Festival of Britain in 1951. This tour became a defining point in his career as he decided to remain in England with his pan and promote this new found musical art form. In 1952, Sterling Betancourt joined forces with a fellow Trinidadian musician, pianist Russell Henderson, to record some of Henderson’s piano music. Later the Russ Henderson Steel Band was formed along with Mervyn Constantine. A defining point for the band came in 1964 when the band was invited to play at the opening of a Children’s Carnival in Notting Hill. The invite came from Rhaune Laslette, a Notting Hill resident and local social worker, who was organising the event. In keeping up with the tradition of the Trinidad carnival at that time, the steel band began an impromptu march through the streets, enticing some of the onlookers to take part in the procession. This led to the start of the Notting Hill Carnival in 1965 with steel band music as the music of choice. Betancourt has taken Pan to many countries throughout Europe and Asia and as recognition for his contribution he was awarded Trinidad and Tobago’s Scarlet Ibis award, a University of East London Fellowship, an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) and made a member of FRSA for his commitment in promoting steelpan culture throughout the United Kingdom, and pioneering steelpan projects in English schools
Stone pipe, part of the collection at Museo Despierta Hermano de Malalhue
Scrapers made from a variety of materials were popular tools for Amerindian communities. Scrapers are typically formed by chipping the end of a flake of stone in order to create one sharp side and to keep the rest of the sides dull to facilitate grasping it. Most scrapers are either circle or blade-like in shape. The working edges of scrapers tend to be convex, and many have trimmed and dulled lateral edges to facilitate hafting. In Barbados, as the island is made of limestone and not volcanic rock, scrapers were usually made of conch shell. So it is likely that this stone scraper originated from another Caribbean country. Digitized by Toni-Q Harris during the 2018 BMHS 3D Photogrammetry Summer Intensive