The Pulses of Caribbean History: A Cup of Tea with Professor Matthew J. Smith

Podcast category: A Cup of Tea With, Podcast

The ripples of history are around us at all times, whether we notice them or not. In this episode, Professor Judy Stephenson is in conversation with Professor Matthew J. Smith: Professor of History, and Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery. Prof Smith discusses the field of Caribbean history, and the complex history of the Caribbean as a nexus of interatlantic imperial trade.

Prof Smith will be the Principal Investigator on Valuable Lives (VL): the core research project of the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS). This project received a $575,000 grant from a North American funder to support the development of a publicly accessible database listing every person enslaved in the British Caribbean between 1817 and 1832.