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322:(WICB) to organise a match between the touring New Zealanders and a team selected by the university's vice-chancellor. Matches between touring sides and the Vice Chancellor's XI have since become a regular, almost annual, event. In 1999, Beckles published a two-volume series on the history of cricket in the Caribbean, entitled
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in 1986, he was named
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development as "empire-building"; another commentator has criticised his decisions made while on the board of the WICB. In May 2011, Beckles made a statement suggesting that
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A History of Barbados: From Amerindian Settlement to Caribbean Single Market
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Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
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The Development of West Indies Cricket: The Age of Globalization
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The Development of West Indies Cricket: The Age of Nationalism
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in 1984. Having been named a senior research fellow at the
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Liberties Lost: The Indigenous Caribbean and Slave Systems
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Executive Profile: Hilary McD Beckles B.A. (Hons.) Ph.D.
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