{"id":543,"date":"2019-09-30T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=543"},"modified":"2019-09-30T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T10:31:33","slug":"john-slights-interviews-about-the-history-of-thomas-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"John Slight interviewed about the history of Thomas Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Slight, Lecturer in Imperial and Global History, has been interviewed by Agence France Presse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alhakam.org\/thomas-cook-the-travel-agent-of-a-muslim-caliph\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.alhakam.org');\">Al-Hakam Weekly<\/a> newspaper, BBC Radio Nottingham, Northampton, West Midlands, Coventry and Warwickshire, and Three Counties, about the history of Thomas Cook, especially its involvement with the Hajj pilgrimage from colonial India to Mecca in the nineteenth century. Slight&#8217;s research has also been featured in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrc.nl\/nieuws\/2019\/09\/30\/met-thomas-cook-op-bedevaartstocht-naar-mekka-a3975018?utm_source=SIM&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Vandaag&amp;utm_content&amp;utm_term=20190930&amp;fbclid=IwAR0K6IOrGQe-ad5BeEV2Jan6X40iS-n05uZnjYXN1D86Kt3CvAkvKHTCxpE\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.nrc.nl');\">article<\/a> by Carolein Roelants, one of the most influential commentators on the Middle East in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2C8A219E00000578-0-image-a-3_1442755746470.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2C8A219E00000578-0-image-a-3_1442755746470-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2C8A219E00000578-0-image-a-3_1442755746470-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2C8A219E00000578-0-image-a-3_1442755746470-624x298.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2C8A219E00000578-0-image-a-3_1442755746470.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. John Slight, Lecturer in Imperial and Global History, has been interviewed by Agence France Presse, Al-Hakam Weekly newspaper, BBC Radio Nottingham, Northampton, West Midlands, Coventry and Warwickshire, and Three Counties, about the history of Thomas Cook, especially its involvement with the Hajj pilgrimage from colonial India to Mecca in the nineteenth century. Slight&#8217;s research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/?p=543\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Slight interviewed about the history of Thomas Cook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}