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richard drayton FRHistS (born 1964) is a Guyana-born historian and Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London.
== Biography ==
richard drayton was born in Guyana in 1964, to parents Kathleen (nee 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.
Imperial Science
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what drove the British Empire, especially in Victoria’s century. Was it science, more specifically, the science of plants, of agriculture, a scientific notion of nature and the improvement of nature? Was this seemingly rather adjacent notion - that the source of Emp…
Two World Wars and the Cold War
The First World War, the role of Versailles, The Second World War, the Atlantic Charter, and The Cold War
Sacha Hepburn: Department of History, Birkbeck, University of London.
Richard Drayton: Department of History, King's College, London.
Tim Livsey: Department of History, University of Northum…
The Dawn of Colonisation
The Berlin Conference 1884/85, the role of the maxim gun, and the way colonialism gradually became the order of the day, across the continent.
Richard Drayton: Department of History, King's College, London.
Miles Larmer: Department of History, University of Oxford.
Damilola Adebayo: Department …
The Rise And Fall of The Slave Trade
The start of the trade, the role of Europeans and Africans in the slave trade, interesting stories and anecdotes, the end of the trade and its legacies.
Richard Drayton: Department of History, King''s College, London.
Padraic Scanlan: Department of History, University of Toronto.
Damilola Adebay…
Slavery and the City of London
PART OF OUR BLACK HISTORY MONTH SERIESFreedom has been central to the identity of the City of London for centuries. But from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth centuries, the African Slave Trade and Plantation Slavery in the Americas were key to London's banking, insurance, shipping, manufacturing, …
Imperial Science
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what drove the British Empire, especially in Victoria’s century. Was it science, more specifically, the science of plants, of agriculture, a scientific notion of nature and the improvement of nature? Was this seemingly rather adjacent notion - that the source of Emp…
EP 75- Field Works : Artists Talk - In the Field: The Work Behind the Work
Welcome back to Sus Art Club — where we make creativity sustainable again.This week, we’re inside Studio 5 at Redux for a special Field Works artist talk, part of the August wall exhibition curated by Ty Davis and Tiguere Contemporary.
Instead of just focusing on finished pieces, this show digs int…
Why the Empire Loses, w Richard Drayton (E13)
Has capitalism's American-led empire sown the seeds of its own military defeat?
The Professor of Imperial and Global History at King's College London, Richard Drayton, joins the pod to talk about how military technology, and the political economy it's embedded in, have yet again changed the face of…
Free Thinking - First World War, Empathy
Matthew Sweet revisits Alan Bleasdale's 1986 World War One TV series The Monocled Mutineer inspired by life of soldier Percy Toplis. He talks to Paul McGann who played the soldier in the series and academics Julian Putkowski and Richard Drayton.
Philosopher Roman Krznaric wants to launch an empath…
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