Human Resources : Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain – in 39 Institutions, People, Places and Things, Renay Richardson & Arisa Loomba

Human Resources : Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain – in 39 Institutions, People, Places and Things, Renay Richardson & Arisa LoombaNew Hardback Ordinary items take on new meanings when you cast them in different light. The origins of tea, coffee and sugar are well known, but when you discover that gym treadmills were pioneered on plantations or that denim jeans were once clothing for enslaved people, you can't help but ask where else the legacy of slavery hides in plain sight. Through the stories of thirty nine everyday places and objects, Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba unpick

Night and Day

Sevastopol

As she probed beneath the surface

James was asked by neighbour Lord Patrick Lichfield: "How on earth did you manage to sell so many magazines whilst taking so many drugs

awe-inspiring place of unquenchable spirit and wild weather

Don't get angry

Bruno Lacombe

China and the West that will dominate the twenty-first century

Roaming Scotland in all manner of weather

Dostoevsky's Writer's Diary was also his creative laboratory

better remunerated career

Training in Canada began a Naval flying career that spanned thirty-years