https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza The Booker Prize takes its name from its initial sponsor, Booker McConnell, one of the preeminent companies of the British empire. This padlet supports the Q and A and lecture. en-us 2020-10-28 15:47:50 UTC 2023-02-05 14:40:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/771480759/8b2cb73e1ffa7911ec96d56e8e61962a/HHlogo.png https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/861411388 Extract from British Guiana Trades Union Council memorandum on the question of independence. It expresses concern about political divisions "based on racial lines" resulting in "rioting and bloodshed" (Trades Union Congress archive, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/B/10/115/3)]]> 2020-10-26 12:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/861411388 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012567 https://tinyurl.com/yyzr2e46]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012567 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012572 Author: From A Special Correspondent
Date: Monday,  July 27, 1964
Publication: The Times (London, England)
Issue: 56074
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Date: Friday,  Dec. 22, 2006
Publication: The Times Literary Supplement (London, England)
Issue: 5412,5413
https://tinyurl.com/y6zwouec]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012583 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012585 Cover of British government booklet about Guyana, produced in the run up to independence (archives of Margaret Stanton, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MSP/2/1/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012585 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012591 Pamphlet written by Cheddi Jagan in response to Britain's suspension of the country's constitution in 1953 (archives of Margaret Stanton, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MSP/2/1/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012591 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012592 Pamphlet written by Cheddi Jagan, arguing that "our Government and our country are poor because of a highly organized system - a system geared to exploit poor people and plunder poor countries" (archives of Margaret Stanton, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MSP/2/1/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012592 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012595 Cover of 'The Times Supplement on Guyana', published to mark the country's independence (archives of Margaret Stanton, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MSP/2/1/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012595 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012598 Full page advert for the Booker Group, published in 'The Times Supplement on Guyana' to mark the country's independence (archives of Margaret Stanton, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MSP/2/1/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012598 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012599 Profiles of Guyana's politicians at independence, published in 'The Guardian' (archives of Margaret Stanton, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MSP/2/1/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012599 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012604 Leaflet calling for release of political prisoners and preservation of the rule of law, issued by the London Branch of the People's Progressive Party (archives of Margaret Stanton, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/MSP/2/1/1)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012604 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012607 Leaflet publicising a mass meeting for "the formation of a virile and active Trade Union in British Guiana' - a 'Workers' Party' (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/A/12/972/29)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012607 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012609 Cover of British government booklet on "the preparation and progress" made in British Guiana in 1954, following the suspension of the constitution and appointment of an interim government (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/C/9/28/27)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012609 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012611 Map of sugar estates included in a promotional booklet for Bookers Sugar (Trades Union Congress archive, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/C/9/28/23)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012611 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012613 Cover of glossy promotional booklet for Bookers Sugar, published for the British market following the suspension of British Guiana's constitution. It includes information about the business, labour relations, welfare, health and housing (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/C/9/28/23)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012613 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012615 Description of the working day of a "typical field labourer" as presented in a British Colonial Office report of a Commission of Inquiry into the sugar industry of British Guiana (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/C/9/28/22)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012615 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012616 Front page of elections supplement published by the Man Power Citizens Association, Georgetown. It attacks the People's Progressive Party and "the dangers of Communism" (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/C/9/28/20)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012616 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012620 Front page of May Day edition of 'Thunder', newspaper of the People's Progressive Party, including comment on the party's programme of non-co-operation with the government (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/C/9/28/20)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012620 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012622 Front page of 'Labour Advocate', newspaper of Man-Power Citizens' Association, reporting on political power struggle between competing sugar unions (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/B/10/115/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012622 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012624 People's Progressive Party overseas newsletter on the general strike against the PPP government, including allegations of "military plans" by the opposition People's National Congress (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/B/10/115/3)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012624 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012626 British Colonial Office press release on the sugar strike and related violence (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/B/10/115/5)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012626 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012629 Cover of People's Progressive Party pamphlet on the history of the sugar industry in British Guiana (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/B/10/115/5)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012629 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012631 Press cutting reporting on controversy over the visit of Stokely Carmichael to Guyana (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/B/10/115/8)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012631 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012632 Extract from a memorandum on "the super exploitation of plantation workers of Guyana" written by the Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/D/12/25/11/1)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012632 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012633 Supplement to the pro-People's Progressive Party newspaper 'Mirror' about the sugar industry (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/D/12/25/11/1)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012633 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012636 Leaflet about the sugar strike issued by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/D/12/25/11/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012636 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012641 Extract from memorandum about the general strike in the sugar industry, produced by the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/D/12/25/11/2)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012641 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012643 Leaflet about a demonstration over housing sponsored by the Women's Social Section of the British Guiana Labour Union (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/A/12/972/31)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012643 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012645 Extract from Man-Power Citizen's Association district report, including information about rivalry with PPP and visits to sugar estates (Trades Union Congress, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/A/12/972/34)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012645 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012651 Photograph of a demonstration organised by the British Guiana Labour Union in Georgetown (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/A/12/972/31)]]> 2020-10-28 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870012651 UWLMRC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870176190 Text of article by A.A. Thorne, President of the British Guiana Workers' League, on "conditions affecting labour today", with photo of the author (Trades Union Congress archives, Modern Records Centre, https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/TUC/A/12/972/29)]]> 2020-10-28 15:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/UWLMRC/2gs8z2uixjdtwcza/wish/870176190