Human Resources
by Broccoli Productions
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Our New Book is Out!
Our New Book is Out!
About this podcast
Exploring the true story of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches every part of the nation. Hosted by Moya Lothian-McLean, a journalist and descendent of both Black African Slaves and White slave owners or overseers.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 37 episodes
- Our New Book is Out! · 1 min · Season 3 Episode 15Sadly, the podcast has come to an end. However, there is still so much to learn and discover about the links between modern Britain and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which is…
- In Conversation with Kris Manjapra · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 14Moya and Kris Manjapra discuss his book Black Ghost of Empire, a revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world. Learn more about your ad…
- A Free Town · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 13As abolitionist campaigns gained traction in the late 1700s, the population of formerly enslaved people grew. Those who had been enslaved in the British colonies were ‘freed’…
- Think of the Children · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 12At the height of the British slave trade, there were no cameras to capture the experiences of the children who found themselves forced into enslavement. There are not even exact…
- Abolition, Now part 2 · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 11In the last episode, ‘Abolition, Now part 1’, I was talking with Historian Diana Patton about the real timeline of Aboliton and what Abolition really meant for those previously…
- Abolition, Now part 1 · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 10Most people know the basics of this moment. Josiah Wedgewood made some pottery, William Wilberforce made some speeches, John Newton wrote Amazing Grace, and boom! Britain’s…
- A Tale of Two Pews · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 9In southwest London, there is an area that plays an outsized role in British history. Today, if you walk through Clapham, you will be greeted by formerly grand black and white…
- The Colony's Colony · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 8Like Scotland, Ireland was another notch on England’s colonial bedpost, ruled from England continuously since the Tudors re-established the Kingdom of Ireland in the 16th century…
- Introducing Physical Capital: Swimming · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 7Why do we swim? It’s not new, we’ve been swimming for 10,000 years… apparently. But why? We don’t live in the water and so what draws us to it? In this first episode of the…
- In The Ring · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 7I love fitness. I love sports. I go to the gym, I walk, I run, I cycle. In my youth, I played team games. And everyone said I was good at sports because of my heritage. My…
- Everyday People · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 6In this episode we’re venturing onto the bustling city streets of 18 century London, trying to uncover the traces of the Black individuals who became part of the working class…
- In Absentia · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 5In the last episode, we looked at the women in Jamaica who owned slaves, both British colonists and the formerly enslaved women who codified their freedom through subjugating…
- GIRLBOSSES · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 4Women made up 40% of slaveowners across the Caribbean – and although historians have had to dig even harder to pull together a picture of their lives, it’s out there. Featuring…
- The Dis-carded · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 3At the centre of the system of chattel slavery, was the body. Not the mind, not the soul but the physical vessel necessary to carry out backbreaking labour. And break backs it…
- Hippocrits · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 2The Hippocratic Oath isn’t universal. But in the 18th century, the Oath began to be more widely used in medical schools across the British Empire and Europe. The Enlightenment…
- Inventing Race · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 1Human civilization only began about 6,000 years ago. As author Emma Dabiri writes in her 2021 book, cheekily titled ‘What White People Can Do Next’, in the grand scheme of…
- Winners and Losers · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 10We’re back to a well-trodden theme: following the money to understand how Scotland’s national development was shaped by the slave trade – and who the winners and losers were…
- Bairns · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 9In the first of our episodes spotlighting Scotland’s slaving history, we went big and broad. Now it’s time to get personal, to uncover the individual stories which, pieced…
- Taking the High Ground · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 8When we talk about the ‘British’ Empire and the ‘British’ slave trade, it’s easy to forget that England – although the central seat of power – was not the only country involved…
- Origin Stories part 2 · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 7In part 1 of Origin Stories, we explored the dominant narratives around the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. But within every accepted history are a multitude of…
