The Barbados Museum & Historical Society invites you to the second lecture in the 2014 Lecture Series Big Grain Rice and Beyond: Feeding Barbados Yesterday and Today on Tuesday March 25th 2014 at 7.00 pm at Queens Park Steel Shed. The lecture which will be delivered by Dr. Henderson Carter is entitled Land Use in Historical Perspective: How and why An Export Staple Dominated. Dr Henderson Carter is a lecturer in History at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, where he teaches West Indian History, US History and Barbadian Business History. He holds a BA (Hons) degree in History and Political Science, a Master of Philosophy in Economic History and a PhD in Social History. Dr Carter also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. He has conducted extensive research on Barbadian businesses in the twentieth century as well as the rum business in the slavery period, labour revolts in the nineteenth century. His publications include ‘A History of the Carlton Supermarket, 1965-2002’ and ‘Business in Bim: A Business History of Barbados, 1900-2000.’ In 2011, he wrote: Powering Our Nation’s Progress: The Story of Electricity Service in Barbados, 1911 -2011. He also wrote Switching on with Elcock for 50 years: A History of Everson R. Elcock & Co. Ltd., 1961 – 2011. Dr Carter has also published three books on Barbadian social history: Shaping A Nation: Principals of Barbadian Schools; Moulding Communities, Shaping Lives: A History of the Church of the Nazarene, 1926 to 2008; and Labour Pains: Resistance and Protest in Barbados, 1838 – 1904. He is also the co-author of ‘Atlantic Interactions’, a text book for CAPE history students (second edition) with David Browne. Dr Carter has delivered public lectures on Sarah Ann Gill, Panama Migration, Corporate Expansion from Barbados, Clement Payne and the 1937 rebellion, Black Businesses and Riots in Bridgetown in the 19th Century. He has also delivered conference papers at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference in March 2012 and March 2014. Dr Carter is the Convener of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) History panel and serves on the CAPE Caribbean Studies subject panel. He has conducted several seminars on the teaching of West Indian History in Barbados and the region. He is married and has two teenage children.
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