We hope you had a Happy Christmas with your family and friends. We thought you might enjoy this 30 minutes potted history of Barbados by Professor Richard Drayton from Kings College in the UK.

Professor Richard Drayton gave the 2023 Errol Barrow Day lecture in London at All Saints’ Church, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 1JS on 21^st January 2023. This 30 minute lecture was hosted by Tyrone Roach on his: Bajan Hub UK YouTube Channel and his Bajan Hub UK website.

Richard Drayton is a history professor. He was born in Guyana in 1964, to parents Kathleen (née McCracken; 1930–2009) and Harold Drayton (1929–2018), and grew up in Barbados, where he migrated with his family in 1972. He went to school at Harrison College in Bridgetown, from which he left as a Barbados Scholar to Harvard University. Richard is a graduate student at Balliol College, Oxford, as the Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholar, and at Yale University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation. He is Professor of Imperial and Global History at Kings College London.

This 30 minute video gives a very succinct potted history of Barbados.

[Editors note: This post was written by Peter Burton. The authorship has been assigned to Tyrone Roach who hosted this lecture so it appears under Tyrone Roach’s list of authored posts.]