The Fall of the Planter Class
This is the introduction to a special issue of the journal Atlantic Studies, about the fall of the planters.
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Gluttony, Excess, and the Fall of the Planter Class
Food and rituals around eating are a fundamental part of human existence. They can also be heavily politicized and socially significant. In the British Caribbean, white slaveholders were renowned for their hospitality towards one another and towards white visitors.
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Students numbers grow on free pre-arrival online course
Over 1,600 incoming and prospective international students are currently participating in Get Ready for Southampton, a free online course open between April and October, which enables participants to meet and make international friends, and get a taste for what life is like at the University of Southampton before coming to study. Now in its fourth year, numbers on the course this year are still climbing with expected figures to exceed last year’s record of 2,500.
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Call for Papers
The ACH is pleased to receive paper and panel applications for next year’s conference. Members suggested several themes at this year’s Annual General Meeting in Martinique.
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Timelapse Video – Day 5
We’ve put together a little timelapse video to give you an idea of a typical hour in the trench!
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Summer Season 2014 – Week 1 Photos
Here are just some of the photos from the first week of the 2014 Basing House project excavation season.
Visit our Flickr Group to see all of our Basing House excavation and survey photos from 2013 and 2014.
You can also join the group and share your own Basing House photos. We’d love to see your piccies!
Basing House CAT Project Flickr Group: http://www.flickr.
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Images and Archaeology: Introduction
Archaeologists use images in many different ways. Throughout the course of the excavation we will produce a huge variety of images including hand drawn plans, artefact photographs and pictures of our friends taken with camera phones. These images all tell us something different about the site and the people who are working there. They all perform a different purpose and will contribute to our understanding of the site in different ways.
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New Look News and Posts
The S&R site has a new look for news items and blog posts.
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Presentations for Reshaping Languages in Higher Education conference now available
Following the highly successful Reshaping Languages in Higher Education conference, organised by the Centre for Languages Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS), at the Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton, earlier this month, a number of the presentation slides are now available online. To access these, visit the conference pages on the LLAS website.
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Facebook Page for Basing House
If you enjoy following our blog, you might also like to take a look at our Facebook page: www.facebook.
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