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I am a member of the Department of History in the School of Humanities at Plymouth University.
From 2008-2010, I taught and undertook research as a post-doctoral fellow and lecturer in History at Yale University. I researched my doctorate at St. Catherine’s and St. Anne’s colleges, University of Oxford, and studied for my BA and Master’s degrees at St. Anne’s. My DPhil thesis was on British anti-slavery after West Indian emancipation.
Since then my work on anti-slavery has expanded backwards and forwards in time but retained a strong interest in Britain’s relationship with world slavery and abolition. My first book, Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain, will be published by Cornell University Press in September 2012.
My current research interests include: popular ideas about political representation, particularly regarding petitioning; anti-slavery in the period of abolition and emancipation (c. 1776-1838); and understandings of the relationship between material interest and moral principle in history.
