... British born Black Cardiff Elder Dempster firemen Gloucester Castle Ministry of War mortality slave trade Somalis South Shields steam West African coast Zanzibaris Lagos SS Criton SS Princesa Bristol St Vincent British Seamen's Union British Empire prejudice sailortown colour bar...

... of maritime employment in relation to nostalgia, and a pervasive, romanticised view of sailing and sailing culture. Williams finds, and concludes, that nostalgia for traditional sailing, yearning for a glorified British Empire, and an emotional public mindset, made little impression on the economic progress...

...This chapter examines the French raid of the Newfoundland Fishery in 1762 in attempt to determine the motivation for targeting that fishery in particular. It explores the effect of the Seven Years’ War on French trade, the dominance of the British Empire at sea; the benefits and risks of the raid...

...This chapter explores the continuous struggle between the French and British empires over each others’ presence in Newfoundland. It examines the question of sovereignty and the way each nation interpreted the Treaty of Utrecht in their own favour. It is particularly concerned with settlements...

...A bibliography of post-graduate theses concerning English Trade with the rest of the world, with a particularly comprehensive subsection devoted to trade with India Shipping Trade British Empire East India Company Merchant English Merchants 343. Postan, M. The financing of trade in the later...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on James Joyce's book Dubliners. It describes the ways Joyce felt estranged from the prevalent power in Ireland of his times, which came primarily in the form of the Roman Catholic Church and the British Empire. The chapter...

... Theological Seminary global media commemorative University of Glasgow reparative justice public relations transatlantic slavery British Empire abolition movement slavery social media With the publication of the “Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow” report on September 16, 2018...

...In colonial Trinidad in 1919 rising industrial turmoil culminated in a rolling mass strike that would shake this outpost of the British Empire to its foundations. Though often located as an important part of Trinidadian or at best Caribbean labour history—a precursor to the powerful wave of labour...

... Repair costs Trade Voyage costs Colonialism British Colonies Colonial Trade British Shipping Policies The British Empire Navigation Acts British Tramp Vessels British-owned shipping dominated the ports and sea lanes of the world in the years immediately prior to the First World War...

... British Shipping Interwar Britain British Empire Kru Seamen Elder Dempster Interwar Economy The literature on seafaring in West Africa has focused essentially on the Kru, an indigenous, seafaring people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. ² Much has been written about their labour recruitment...

...“West Indies to London” tracks the migration process—its triumphs and challenges—for a generation of West Indians at the twilight of the British Empire. Their journey was facilitated by postwar economic growth and the 1948 British Nationality Act, which granted full citizenship to Commonwealth...

...This chapter examines Virginia Woolf's “contrariness” with respect to authority, class, and the British Empire by bringing her into conversation with Voltaire. Woolf 's opening rejoinder, “But, you may say,”, anticipates an unspoken objection, forestalls opposition, and summons an unseen reader...

... being the indigenous name of South Africa – of what writing means when inscribing relations of blood, sex, gender and sexuality, inking blood in textual coloniality, under and between apartheid's reign when its tongue was twisted, locked in a tight vaginal grip with the British Empire and its allies...

... the 1920s, the 1950s, and the 1970s. Thus, historical and demographic perspectives presented in this chapter include a comprehensive review of the statistical record and policy framework surrounding Northern Ireland migration since partition, including the greater British Empire migration context. Belfast...

... research on transplantation and the acclimatisation of foreign species in different parts of the British Empire. The chapter examines the formation of colonial enclaves in tea plantations in northern Bengal, the expansion of tea cultivation in the region, and the practice of medicine, including indigenous...

... the 1930s onwards. It also explores the organization's ideological attachment to the British Empire and ITO leader Israel Zangwill's developing stance regarding the Jewish diaspora, Jewish tradition, and his conception of ‘race’, colonialism, and agriculture. The chapter chronicles the most important...

...-bodied seamen throughout the entire period of the British slave trade. Against the backdrop of the slave trade, the British Empire was growing into the greatest melange of different cultures, races and languages since the Roman era. Black British African Diaspora Black Diaspora Blanke...

...This chapter evaluates the position of black seamen after the demise of the British Empire. Events on the African continent were on course to deprive Britain of a direct source of seafarers of African descent. The newly independent West African countries considered their own issues of naval defence...

... to the war. This study is also conducted, within the broader contexts not only of the responses of the United Kingdom and broader British Empire but also Ireland’s relationship with those political entities, and within Ireland’s post-Famine or mid-Victorian and even wider nineteenth-century history....