LDCRE talk with Dr Philip Woods
British Summer Time
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Britain’s Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade and it’s Abolition: some current issues. A discussion with Dr. Philip Woods.”
“This discussion will include the following areas:
How do we respond to the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and the consequent pulling down of the Edward Colston statue?
The debates about the legacies of slavery in institutions such as universities, the National Trust, English Heritage, financial institutions etc.
The calls for reparations for the damage caused in Africa and the Caribbean.
How to diversify the curriculum so as to engage with these issues properly.”
Dr Philip Woods
Is an historian who taught a course on Britain and Slavery, 1562-1916, at New York University in London for nearly two decades. He previously taught at what is now the University of West London and Kingston University. His research has focused on the role of the media in British rule in India and Burma. He recently published Managing the Media in the India-Burma War, 1941-1945: Challenging a ‘Forgotten War’ (Bloomsbury Academic 2023)