History & Culture

Summer Scholars: Colonial Fatherhood and Chinese Caribbean Labour

The British Library

14 July 2026

Free

Novelist Jacqueline Crooks traces how colonial power shaped Jamaican fatherhood across generations, while researcher Samuel Niu uncovers the recruitment of over 13,000 Chinese labourers indentured to the Caribbean in the 19th century. Two strands of the same empire, finally told, are held up to the light before the lunch bell tolls.