My Goings With Owen
In the land of wood, water and levity,
we roamed, as young men do, but separately.
I joined him after Michael’s defeat in 1980.
Professor Sir Hilary Beckles was born in Barbados in 1955. He became UWI Vice-Chancellor in 2015. Sir Hilary is an internationally reputed historian and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals including the ‘Journal of Caribbean History’, ‘Sports in Society’, and as an international editor for the ‘Journal of American History’. He is also the Chair, Board of Directors of the University of the West Indies Press. Sir Hilary has published over ten academic books, including: ‘Liberties Lost: The Native Caribbean and Slave Societies’ (Cambridge University Press, 2004), ‘Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean Slave Society’; (James Currey Press); ‘The History of Barbados’ (Cambridge University Press, 1990); a two-volume work on West Indies cricket, ‘The Development of West Indies Cricket: Volume One, The Age of Nationalism’ and ‘Volume Two, The Age of Globalisation’ (Pluto Press 1999); ‘Britains Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide in the Caribbean’ (UWI Press 2015): and in 2017 ‘Cricket without a Cause: The Fall of the Mighty West Indian Cricketers’. Sir Hilary Beckles was awarded Knight of St. Andrew, the highest national honour in Barbados, for his contribution to “Higher Education, the Arts, and Sports” in 2007.