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...become so closely associated with the idea of free-trade economics? Read on… Adam Smith and Eighteenth-century Scotland [Portrait of Adam Smith, author of 'Wealth of Nations'] Portrait of Adam Smith, author of 'Wealth of Nations' Adam Smith was born in Kirkaldy in Fife in 1723. He grew up and spent most of his life in the Lowlands of Scotland, where he was part of a...

...student and wrote my thesis on George Hibbert, a proslavery West India merchant and art, book and botany collector. This research eventually became my first monograph The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World (MUP, 2020). 3. What is it about your specialist area that fascinates you? The history, legacies and representation of slavery...

...become an institution itself, if we think for example of hip-hop themed record labels, clothing brands, youth outreach programmes or university courses. On the other hand, though, Hip Hop activists have consistently critiqued the way the Institution uses resources, knowledge and aesthetics created by communities of Hip Hop heads without giving back anything of value to...