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Box for a voyage
When off on a boat trip, people used this kind of box, known in Shetland as a bøst, to carry food or fishing flies. These boxes were made around Hordaland province, and imported in the 18th century as part of the islands’ trading links with coastal…
Bolsa de ubre / Trong-trong Nillawaca
Artefacto empleado como recipiente de almacenamiento, confeccionado con una ubre de vaca, vacía y seca. Le falta una de las tetillas, y en la parte superior hay indicios de una posible amarra que en algún momento se usó para cerrar el…
Bolsa de Corporales - Chalice Cover
Artefacto textil en hilo de oro sobre fondo de raso color crema y bordes de tela roja, es utilizado como objeto litúrgico del rito tradicional católico, disponiéndolo sobre el cubre-cáliz y cáliz respectivamente. Su color depende del día litúrgico en…
Bola de peidra - Stone ball / Petrosphere
Las bolas de piedra parecen detener el tiempo para que veamos la habilidad, ingenio y sabiduría de nuestros ancestros, quienes dominaron este territorio en los tiempos precolombinos. Principalmente por su cantidad, significado y casi perfección las…
BMHS 2020 Lecture Series: Sir Hilary Beckles
Sir Hilary Beckles on the topic "Barbadians in the UK after 1945"
2020 Lecture Series presented by the Barbados Museum & Historical Society, under the theme- "Buhbadus ta de World": Origins and Legacy of Barbadian Migration."
BMHS 2020 Lecture Series: Prof. Pedro Welch
2020 Lecture Series presented by the Barbados Museum & Historical Society under the theme "Buhbadus ta de World": Origins and Legacy of Barbadian Migration."
BMHS 2019 Lecture: "Coming Home to Mother- Documenting the Migrant Experience" by Claude Graham
This lecture was a part of the 2019 Barbados Museum & Historical Society 2019 Lecture under the theme: "From Invitation to Deportation: 70 Years of Windrush Generation."
Blackware Paccha
Una vasija Balckware usada para ceremonias con agua.
A Blackware vessel used for ceremonies with water.
Black Ceramic Jug
Museums of the University of St Andrews
Black Bear Skull
Black Bear Skull from the collections in the Bell Pettigrew Natural History, part of the Museums of the University of St Andrews.
Bishop Wilfred Wood KA
Wilfred Denniston Wood KA (born 15 June 1936) was Bishop of Croydon from 1985 to 2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England
Born in Barbados to Wilfred Coward and Elsie Elmira Wood, in Proute, St Thomas, Wood [later Sir Wilfred] attended…
Bica romana - Roman fountain spout
Bico romano de fonte de jardim com rosto humano e corimbus no topo da cabeça, feito de bronze. A boca é a abertura para a passagem da água. A parte de trás é plana com restos de chumbo que se conectariam a um duto de água.
Roman garden fountain…
Bell Pettigrew Museum
The Bell Pettigrew Museum is the University of St Andrews zoology museum. It is a rare survival of a Victorian teaching museum, and wonderfully atmospheric.
The displays, which include examples of several extinct species, are arranged to allow the…
Bell
This is a typical school bell, and is in the collection of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society as one of the visual indicators of the history of education on the island. The foundations of education in Barbados were laid by the philanthropic…
Battle of the Somme Football
Billie (Wilfred) Nevill was educated at Dover College. He left university on 5th August 1914 and applied for a commission as soon as Lord Kitchener asked for volunteers to fight in the Great War.
In May 1916, Captain Nevill went home to England on…
Battle of the Somme Football
Billie (Wilfred) Nevill was educated at Dover College. He left university on 5th August 1914 and applied for a commission as soon as Lord Kitchener asked for volunteers to fight in the Great War.
In May 1916, Captain Nevill went home to England on…
Barril de madera - Wooden barrel
Barril en proceso de fabricación formado por 12 tiras de madera unidas por tres anillos de hierro.
Barrel in process of manufacture formed by 12 strips of wood joined by three rings of iron
Barrel
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…
Baroness Valerie Amos
Baroness Valerie Amos was the first black woman cabinet minister and joint first black woman peer and recently appointed Leader of the House of Lords, the third woman in history to lead the upper house of Parliament. Baroness Amos is one of three…
Baroness Patricia Scotland
Queens Council and joint first black woman peer, Patricia Scotland was born in Dominica in 1956, and arrived in Britain at the age of 2 along with 10 other siblings. As she grew she took a liking for dance and wanted to be a modern expressionist…
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
The Barbados Museum and Historical Society (BMHS) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with a membership of over 1,000 individuals and companies. A fourteen-member Council and the Director are responsible for its policies and operation.…
Barbados Museum & Historical Society garrison view from above
Barbados Museum & Historical Society view from above, showing the lay out of the original garrison.
Barbados Drone Footage
Drone footage of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Barbados Community College Class
Barbados Community College
2018
Michelle Hinkson-Cox
Co-ordinator for the Theatre Arts Programme at BCC
Students
Brianna Gibbs
Danielle Sanson
Dylan Collymore
Malaika Croney
Melissa Hunte
Rayna Garnes
Romario Cottoy
Richenda…
Barbados Community College
Barbados Community College
2018
Michelle Hinkson-Cox
Co-ordinator for the Theatre Arts Programme at BCC
Students
Brianna Gibbs
Danielle Sanson
Dylan Collymore
Malaika Croney
Melissa Hunte
Rayna Garnes
Romario Cottoy
Richenda…
Barbados Bullfinch/Sparrow
The Barbados bullfinch is a small bird, 14–15 cm (5.5–6 in). The upperparts are a dark olive-grey, the wings are mostly brown, underparts are greyish, while the under tail-coverts are tawny. The species is not sexually dimorphic, with females and…
Avião de mão - Hand plane
A hand plane used for shaping wood by hand. To reduce thickness and smooth the surface of the wood. Used by pushing the plane away from the user with both hands. Hand planes have been used since the Romans and continued through Medieval Europe and…
Aubrey Williams
Aubrey Williams (8 May 1926 – 17 April 1990) was a Guyanese artist. He was best known for his large, oil-on-canvas paintings, which combine elements of abstract expressionism with forms, images and symbols inspired by the pre-Columbian art of…
Asquith Xavier
Asquith Camile Xavier was a West Indian-born Briton who ended a colour bar at British Railways in London by fighting to become the first non-white train guard at Euston railway station in 1966.
Trevor Phillips, when chairman of the Commission for…
Artillery Shell 2
WW1 decorated artillery shell
Artillery Shell
WW1 decorated artillery shell
Argamassa comum romana - Roman commonware mortar
Argamassa quase completa encontrada na vila romana da Quinta de S. João / Quinta da Laranjeira (Arrentela, Seixal), utilizada na preparação de alimentos, especificamente para moagem. A parte restante possui mais da metade da borda, sobre ela…
Anthropomorphic statue
Anthropomorphic statue, part of the collection of the Moruga Museum. The Moruga Museum was established in November 2013 by founder of the St Vincent Ferrer Society, Eric Lewis. Based in the rural, seaside community of Gran Chemin in south Trinidad,…
Angie Greaves
Angie Greaves, ‘Daytime’ and ‘Soul Town’ presenter on Magic Radio, has one of the most soulful and distinctive female voices in UK radio today. Born in London and enjoying being ‘fabulous in her 50’s’, Angie grew up within a traditional…
Ammunition box top
For a Spandau machine gun, sent from Walter Tull to his brother Edward Tull-Warnock in a letter from the Front 10th August, 1917.
Amerindian Shell
A shell found by Peter L Drewett that might have been a tool used to consume food with by the Amerindian community.
Amerindian Cassava Grater
The Cassava grater was part of the preparation process for Cassava by Amerindian communities. Jerome Handler, in his article “Aspects of Amerindian Ethnography in 17th Century Barbados” stated that: “ in processing the cassava, traditional Amerindian…
Althea McNish FCSD
Althea McNish FCSD (born c. 1933) is a British textile designer of Trinidadian origin who has been called the first British designer of African descent to earn an international reputation.
Althea Marjorie McNish was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad,…
Aldwyn Roberts (Lord Kitchener)
Lord Kitchener, (Aldwyn Roberts), Trinidadian singer and songwriter (born April 18, 1922, Arima, Trinidad, British West Indies — died Feb. 11, 2000, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago), was called the “grandmaster of calypso” and was instrumental in…
A cure for jaundice: Bone Bowl
Jaundice is a symptom, rather than a disease. Shetlanders used folk-remedies to try to cure the condition. One way was to drink water from a stream where three landlords’ estates met. The water was scooped with the big bowl, called a kapp, and the…
3D Digitisation Workshop Malalhue Chile
3D digitisation workshop in Museo Despierta Hermano in Malalhue, Chile.
2020 Lecture Series: Frederick Allyene on "Barbadian Migration to Brazil in the Early 20th Century"
2020 Lecture Series, under the theme : "Buhbadus ta de World': Origins and Legacy of Barbadian Migration."
2019 Lecture Series Panel Discussion on "From Notting hill to Albert Hall: Music and Literature."
2019 Lecture Series Panel Discussion on "From Notting hill to Albert Hall: Music and Literature."
2019 Lecture Series Panel Discussion on "Betrayal! Changing British Immigration Policy in the Age of Brexit."
2019 Lecture Series Panel Discussion on "Betrayal! Changing British Immigration Policy in the Age of Brexit."
"Barbara" by Karl Broodhagen Terracotta bust
A 3D model digitised during the EU-LAC Museums Digital Workshops.
"Margaret's Head" by Karl Broodhagen terracotta bust
Karl Broodhagen (1909-2002) Margaret’s Head 1955 Terracotta bust Karl Broodhagen (1909–2002) was a Guyanese-Barbadian artist, working mostly in sculpture and paint. Originally arriving to the island to become a tailor’s apprentice, he was awarded a…