Catherine Hall

I'm the chair of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership and Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London.

My research has been concerned with questions of Britain and its Empire. In particular, I focused on both the connected histories of Britain and Jamaica, and on the history of writing as central to the ways in which the story of Empire is told. In general, I've been preoccupied with trying to write a different story of the history of Empire.

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Publications

Hall, C. (2020). The Slavery Business and the Making of “Race” in Britain and the Caribbean. Current Anthropology, 61(S22).
Hall, C. (2018). Doing reparatory history: bringing ‘race’ and slavery home. Race & Class, 60(1), 3–21.
Hall, C. (2016, September 26). The racist ideas of slave owners are still with us today. The Guardian.
Hall, C., Draper, N., McClelland, K., et al. (2014). Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain. Cambridge University Press.
Hall, C., & McClelland, K. (Eds.). (2010). Race, nation and empire: Making histories, 1750 to the present. Manchester University Press.
Hall, C., & Rose, S. O. (Eds.). (2006). At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World. Cambridge University Press.

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