History Cafe

Written by: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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  • True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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  • #56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    #56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
    Feb 26 2025
    We look at a map of the British Caribbean to understand why losing the British north American colonies after 1783 mattered to British enslavement. We explore how the trade winds had helped create the four-cornered ‘triangle’ of the British slave trade involving North America, Africa, England and the British Caribbean – and how this doesn't work once this section of the 'Empire' - the North American States - strikes back and becomes 'out of bounds' for British trade. And we begin to see why the British government, having fought at great expense to protect the British Caribbean in the American War of Independence, began to isolate the British planters in the Caribbean and favour the East India Company instead. (R)

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    37 mins
  • #55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    #55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
    Feb 19 2025
    efore we get down to the hard facts of whether or not British enslavement ended because the slave economy no longer worked, we should take a closer look at the moral campaign for its abolition. It turns out to be intriguing, though it was a very different campaign from what we’ve all been told (and many students are apparently still being taught). Credit for the campaign’s success should go to Margaret Middleton and an enormous number of people who aren’t much remembered now. Not just William Wilberforce. The campaign of course stretches from the 1780s to the 1830s. (R)

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    35 mins
  • #54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British enslavement

    #54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
    Feb 12 2025
    We start this 5-part series by trying to give a factual outline of the experience of being transported in horrendous conditions from Africa to the British Caribbean against your will. And we open up the debate started in 1938 by the brilliant young Trinidadian historian Eric Williams as to whether it was money or morality that ended British enslavement? The trade in the enslaved was banned in 1807, the enslaved were 'emancipated' in 1833. (R)

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    36 mins

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