Join us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds.

Framed by a meditation on border-crossing of people and of texts, this essay reflects on the genre of autofiction in relation to the geopolitical contexts of Palestine and global literary marketpla...

Madge Dresser argues that statues of slave traders, such as Edward Colston, often served complex local and civic objectives, which were inextricable from historical processes which silenced the voices...

This panel considers the end of empire as a critical turning point with profound implications for memory making. It draws into conversation two recent monograph studies which track, in distinct ways, ...

Imperial nostalgia - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Imperial nostalgia by Peter Mitchell

Many of us turn to literature to guide us through the highs and the lows of this formative time

The author of Palestine turns his attention to the legacies of Indian partition in this brilliant portrait of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots

Published in Wasafiri (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2025)

Join us for a discussion chaired by Lara Feigel with Elleke Boehmer, author of the new book 'Ice Shock'

PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] A reparatory history of the Manchester Royal Exchange in collaboration with the Royal Exchange Theatre at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

There were her nicknames: Nini with the nits at home as a child, Miss Educated in Seacliff psychiatric hospital, Waldo...

Graphic novels are well-placed to bring forgotten history to life.

Misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized for years, Janet Frame was drawn to the inner worlds of people conventionally treated as inside-less.

Published in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2024)