Colonial riches in Barbados

It's a favourite with Simon Cowell, Michael Winner and local hero Rihanna, but historian Tristram Hunt thinks it's time to look at the other side of Barbados"How a man's heart swells within him, when after sea and sky and sky and sea for nearly a month, he first sees the kindly land beckon to him over the salt waves! And that land tropical!" This was how Victorian writer Henry Nelson Coleridge responded to reaching Bridgetown in 1841. He particularly liked the fact that "Barbados is the most anc...

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