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A 370 page softback, 15cm x 23cm. Signed by the author.

Cricket was central  the realignment of society in Barbados after slavery was abolished in 1834.

How was it that, for several generations, a Caribbean island of just 250,000 people produced the world’s best cricketers?“Irony abounds throughout this story of slavery, sugar, change, continuity and cricket”

With the first-ever use of extensive Barbadian archives (public and private), secondary sources and interviews, and going way beyond C L R James’s influential Beyond a Boundary, Stoddart’s writing infuses history with his own experience of living that very history – by playing the game there.

In telling this remarkable story as both historian and participant player, Brian Stoddart also provides a powerful reminder of the significant role sport, generally, has played in reshaping the modern world and, in particular, how cricket made Barbados.

Brian is pictured with Ken Piesse in June.