Screening for prolonged incubation of HTLV-I infection in British and Jamaican relatives of British patients with tropical spastic paraparesis. by Cruickshank, J, Richardson, J, Morgan, O, Porter, J, Klenerman, P, Knight, J, Newell, A, Rudge, P, Dalgleish, A

Jamaican legislation and the Transatlantic Constitution, 1664-1839 by Graham, A

Jamaican customs data, c. 1800-45 by Graham, A, Lavallee, E

Patterns of durational variation in British dialects by Loukina, A, Kochanski, G

“…We present the results of a quantitative study of durational variability in several British dialects. The study is based on the IViE corpus (Grabe 2001), which contains recordings of speakers from seven central urban dialects of English from the UK and Ireland. …”

Towns, government, legislation and the 'police' in Jamaica and the British Atlantic, 1770-1805 by Graham, A

“…Urban renewal in the British Isles in the long eighteenth century was based on new municipal powers made possible by parliament. …”

“Of Belonging or Not”: Counter-Canons of Britishness in the Novels of Hanif Kureishi and Andrea Levy by Daniele Nunziata

“…Levy’s novel, on the other hand, relates the experiences of a Jamaican couple, Hortense and Gilbert, as they arrive in Britain in 1948 within a fictionalised representation of the Empire Windrush. …”
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Contraband, free ports, and British merchants in the Caribbean world, 1739-1772 by Nadine Hunt teaches African History at York University, Canada. She is co-editor, with Olatunji Ojo of Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean: a history of enslavement and identity since the 18th century, London, I.B. Tauris, 2012.

“…The article explores how British legislators shifted Jamaican and Dominican colonial economies away from contraband trade by opening free ports in 1766. …”
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Planting improvement : the rhetoric and practice of scientific agriculture in northern British America, 1670-1820 by Zilberstein, Anya

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Colonial violence and civilising utopias in the French and British empires: the Morant Bay Rebellion (1865) and the Insurrection of the South (1870) by Chivallon, C, Howard, D

“…Two similar rebellions in British and French Caribbean colonial histories are addressed to highlight the complexities of race and historiography. …”

Utopie postcoloniali: Small Island di Andrea Levy by Nicoletta Brazzelli

“…Small Island follows the interwoven stories of Gilbert Joseph, a black Jamaican who joins the RAF during the Second World War and in 1948 arrives in London as an immigrant aboard the Windrush, Hortense Roberts, his Jamaican wife, Queenie Bligh, their white landlady, and Bernard, Queenie’s English husband. …”
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Caribbean women: changes in the works by María Isabel Quiñones-Arocho

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Culture and contact in the promotion and reduction of anti-gay prejudice: evidence from Jamaica and Britain. by West, K, Hewstone, M

“…In this article, we compared sexual prejudice in Jamaica to that in Britain and investigated the relationship between contact and sexual prejudice in both countries. Jamaican participants reported more negative attitudes toward gay men than did British participants, but contact was more strongly associated with reduced sexual prejudice for Jamaican participants than for British participants. …”

“I am the bastard child of the Empire”: Women and Hybrid Identity in Andrea Levy’s Fiction by Vesna Ukić Košta

“…In the novels published in the course of the nineties, Every Light in the House Burnin’ (1994), Never Far from Nowhere (1996), and Fruit of the Lemon (1999), Andrea Levy (1956–2019), a British writer of Jamaican origin, focuses on the experiences of British-born daughters of first-generation Caribbean immigrants in Britain. …”
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Critical readings of perceptual models in the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson: bass culture by Layne, L

“…<p>This thesis offers an extended reading of the poetry of the Jamaican-born British poet and reggae performer Linton Kwesi Johnson and seeks through these readings to also understand the wider Anglophone Caribbean literary canon’s concern to define a Caribbean aesthetic. …”

Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War by Smith, Richard William Peter

“…When mapped onto the bodies of black Jamaican volunteers, these constructs clashed dramatically with the psychologically and physically impaired white British soldier. …”
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A New Look at the Zong Case of 1783 by Trevor Burnard

“…This article looks at the Jamaican context of the atrocity and connects what happened on this infamous ship with changing commercial and wartime conditions in Jamaica, arguing that this is as much an event in Jamaican as in British history.…”
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Trans-ethnic fine mapping of a quantitative trait locus for circulating angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE). by McKenzie, C, Abecasis, G, Keavney, B, Forrester, T, Ratcliffe, P, Julier, C, Connell, J, Bennett, F, McFarlane-Anderson, N, Lathrop, G, Cardon, L

“…In the Jamaican families, only marker G2350A showed strong but incomplete disequilibrium with the ACE-linked QTL. …”

French comprehension of English regional accents by Kizzi Edensor

“…The goal of this study is to contribute to the understanding of non-native listener’s perceptual comprehension of British regional accents. The read passage of the IViE corpus (Intonational Variation in English) was used for these experiments with a total of nine varieties from Cambridge, London (Jamaican), Liverpool, Leeds, Bradford (Punjabi), Cardiff, Newcastle, Belfast and Malahide. …”
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Too much fighting on the dance floor : retour sur une époque troublée au travers du Ghost Town des Specials by Gildas Lescop

“…In 1979, the Specials will introduce a dynamic and antiracist scene by mixing punk rock energy to Jamaican rythms which will make it prone to dance and initiate reflexion to a British youth then subjected to the growing influence of the National Front. …”
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Between Stephen Lloyd and Esteban Yo-eed: Locating Jamaica Through Cuba by Faith Smith

“…In this essay, I am interested in a Jamaican-born novelist’s use of Cuba’s second war of independence in the 1890s to critique Jamaican complacency about British colonialism after the Second World War. …”
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