Catherine Hall, Partner Investigator

Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London, Chair of the Centre for the Study of British Slave-ownership and Fellow of the British Academy. Her research centres on rethinking the relation between Britain and Empire in the early/mid-nineteenth century and reflects on the ways in which metropolitan ideas and practices have been shaped by the colonial experience. Catherine was Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded project ‘Legacies of British Slave Ownership’ (2004-12) and the ESRC/AHRC-funded ‘Structure and Significance of British-Caribbean Slave-Ownership, 1763-1833’ (2013-16). At the core of this work is a database containing the identity of all slave-owners in the British Caribbean at the time slavery ended, amassing and analysing information about the activities, affiliations and legacies of all the British slave-owners on the database.