Dr Christer Petley Features in BBC4's 'Nelson's Carribean Hell-hole: An Eighteenth Century Navy Graveyard Uncovered'
Senior Lecturer in History Dr Christer Petley has featured in a BBC4 documentary exploring Britain’s imperial past in Antigua, and helps to tell the story of how, and why, the navy inhabited the dark waters of the Caribbean islands during the age of slavery.
You can watch the documentary on the
BBC iPlayer website
.
The documentary relates to
Christer’s
specialist subject in the history of slavery and British colonialism in the Caribbean region.
