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Sam Sharpe - a note 1831
PKB Memorial Fund
Mrs Seacole & Queen Emma
1891 Exhibition
All but unique: H. A. Joseph
Three Historic Buildings
Andrew Bogle
Jamaican politics 1866-1920
people
- 'ordinary' people
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'extraordinary' lives
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Marie Francis
William Henry Hinson
James H Blackwood
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teacher
politician
bee-farmer
Human Rights activist
remarkable families
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family of C E Moody
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Harold Moody
Elise Moody
Charles Aston Moody
Ludlow Moody
Ronald Moody
Locksley Moody
family of R M Nicholas
family of C A D Phang
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Rosalind
May
Hilda
family of H B Phillips
family of A T Stewart
in the churches
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George Fox and early Friends
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1692 and beyond
Rev. S. J. Washington
Rev. W. Theo Bailey
Rev. E. E. Brown
Rev. I. N. D. Gordon
Rev. J. J. Fuller
Church of England
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Rev. Francis Humberstone
Rev. J. M. Trew
Edward Maunde Thompson
Rev. R. Gordon
Rev Dr Hugh Croskery
Rev. T. Banbury
Rev. R. O. Taylor
Rev. H. L. Phillips
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as an Episcopalian priest
Rev. C. C. Douce
Rev. A. Cole
A. L. "Teacher" Walcott
Rev. and Mrs W. A. Burris
Rev. W. L. Brown
the Moravians
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Rev. W. V. Moses
in education
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brief lives
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Thomas Terence Sherlock
Francis Williams
~ Woodlawn 1896
Matthew Josephs
T. B. Stephenson
Robert Lindsay
W Thomas Linton
S. C. Thompson
W. H. Plant
Sigismund C. Walker
Thomas I. Brown
E. Luther Brookes
in legal professions
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Peter Moncrieffe
J. T. Palache
A. A. Fleming
H. R. Walters
H. A. Joseph
M. H. Spencer Joseph
J. L. King
in medical professions
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- doctors
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Sampson Altman
J. J. Edwards
A. J. Thomas
R. M. Stimpson
E. C. Kinkead
E. V. Smith
T. A. Dryden
Cicely Williams
Roderick Atkinson
- in the U.S.A.
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Simeon I. Battiste
David Newton Emanuel Campbell
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portable window fire-escape ladder
A. E. Forsyth
- dentists
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Pedro Pompey
A. T. Cooper
E. E. Clark
J. H. Nicholson
- dispensers
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Anthan F Berry
Charles E Moody
- nurses
- psychiatrists
in politics & public affairs
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early Black politicians [slideshow]
Edward Jordon
Jim Russell
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the 'Great War'
Colonel George Hicks
Samuel Page Smeeton
in business
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drogher/droguer women
Edward Vickars
Charles Phillip Lazarus
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Charles Philip Lazarus remembered
foundry
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- 'City of Kingston'
- Jamaica Cycle Company
building contracts
politics and public affairs
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1909 Party of Progress
J. H. & J. O. Milke
beekeepers
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Hill/Darwin correspondence
Robert Mitchell Nicholas
Joseph Milward Gordon
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Gall's News Letter 1890
John Cassis
Jacob Hume Stewart
Christopher L Barnes
Ernest Clarke
Lance E. Drysdale
on the land
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John S. Levy
in sports
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athletics
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Alfred Reynolds Downer
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education
athletics career
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- amateur
- professional
. . . but after that
boxing
chess
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Arthur Ford Mackenzie
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tributes
cricket
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J. K. Holt, snr
S C Snow
O. C. 'Tommy' Scott
cycling
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Johnnie Weir
A. A. "Bill" Johnson
Washington 'Teacher' Battiste
football
horse racing
tennis
Maroons in Jamaica
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Gleaner references
1796 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1802 Maria, Lady Nugent
1836 Popular Encyclopedia
1844 Edwin Tregellies
1844 Philip Henry Gosse
1859 Richard Hill
1860 Atlantic Monthly
1862 Edward Cust
1865 Col. Fyfe
1865 Once a Week
1866 Charles Town Maroons
1867 Trip to the Tropics
1890 Historical Geography
1898 New York Tribune
1898 Edith, Lady Blake
my articles:
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1996 'Trouble with the Maroons'
2001 'A brave and loyal people'
. . . some more Jamaicans
and even more
places
Kingston & St Andrew
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various places
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Knutsford Pen
street corner cannons
the Old H-W-T Courthouse
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four 18th century houses
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Hibbert House
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Hibbert House - over time
Constantine House
Bull House
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Peter Blaise Desnoes
North Street Villa
Harmony Hall
19th century
Kingston Market
Kingston Race Course
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Pratter's/Prater's Pond
Retreat Pen
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Peter Alexander Espeut
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P A Espeut interview
Waireka
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a trip to 'Wareka' 1896
Park Lodge
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Susan and Mary Burton
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Mount Mansfield
Date Tree Hall
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Blundell/Blundle Hall
Barkly/Clarendon Hall
the Parade
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- the Church
- Barracks
- Theatre
- Coke Chapel
- other buildings
Parade Gardens
Harbour Street
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The Treasury
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the Treasury clock
Streadwick's Marine Gardens
Breezy Castle
Up Park Camp
Admiral's Pen
Rockford Gardens
"Babbin's" Church
other parishes
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Old Harbour
Bog Walk Gorge
Fern Gully
Moneague Lakes
Colbeck Castle
Blue Mountain Estate
Botanical Gardens
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Wallen's Cold Spring
institutions
education
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elementary & all-age schools
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West Branch
Miss Knibb's School, Falmouth
secondary schools
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Collegiate School
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1850s & '60s
1870s
1880s
1890s
1900 & after
headmasters
alumni
cricket
Potsdam
York Castle
Mary Villa College
Kingston High School for Girls
Kingston Technical High School
tertiary institutions
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'the Mico'
Montego Bay Academy
University College
Kingston Commercial College
culture
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Victoria Institute
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- 'Victoria Quarterly'
sport
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athletics
boxing
cricket
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Kingston Cricket Club
Clovelly Cricket Club
cycling
football
golf
horse racing
tennis
security
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constabulary
West India Regiments
the arts
theatre
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Kingston's theatres
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Kingston Theatre
Theatre Royal
new Theatre Royal
Aaron Mendes Sollas
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Joshua A M Sollas
the Sollas family in Jamaica
actors & actresses
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Rudolph De Cordova
the comic tradition
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the Murray family
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H. G. Murray
A. C. Murray
W. C. Murray
legacy
Dr R. O. Murray
Lionel Trim
magic
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Prof. W. A. Barclay
magic lantern & beyond
literature
music and dance
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the classical musicians
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- Eleanor Alberga
~ Neville Atkinson
- Nerine Barrett
- Richard Beckford
- Harold St Nicholas Cartier
- Frederic H. Cowen
- Noel DaCosta
- Louis Drysdale
- Samuel Felsted
- Maxine Franklin
- George and Hilda Goode
- David Johns
- John Lyon
- Marie McMarrow
- Edmund Reid
- Orrett Rhoden
- Oswald Russell
- Paul Shaw
- Don Shirley
- Stephen Tucker
- George Walker
- Curtis Watson
- Willard White
Jamaica Choir
'practice dances'
art
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painting
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Zithri J Atkinson
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Bruce Grit article
Frederic E Church
sculpture
photography
events
& everything else
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- manumissions
- drugs
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- tobacco
- opium
- cocaine
- cannabis
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1913 legislation
public holidays
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crop-over
May 24th
June 7
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Port Royal 1667
Great Earthquake 1692
August 1st
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1888 - 50 years
Christmas
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18th century
19th century
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Christmas with Belisario
Christmas in Kingston
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- Creole Airs
Christmas at the Asylum
and across the island
Christmas Races
early 20th century
lotteries & raffles
other days
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Valentine's Day
Mother's Day
exhibitions
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1891
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the phonograph
merry-go-rounds
Amphitrite
1932
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the Exhibition starts
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a walk around the Exhibition
Exhibition extended
Exhibition sports
- D T Wint
- 'Exhibition' Beecher
- W A W Mitchell
- L. A. Thoywell-Henry
1934
1946 - Exhibition that wasn't
natural disasters
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earthquakes
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- 1692
- 1907
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Kingston burning
reports
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map
- Capt. T. T. Lovelace
damage
who was Joseph E Thomas?
afterwards
- smaller 'quakes
hurricanes
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Jamaica's climate
Dampier and hurricanes
18th century
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1780s - hurricane decade
19th century
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- 1815
1830s & 1840s
1870s & 1880s
20th century
21st century
fires
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1843
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1843 Colonial Magazine
1862
1875
1882
diseases
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cholera
'Dandy fever'
"Spanish" 'flu
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