Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communities, Classes, Races, Modern History

Regions:

Africa

Summary of research interests and expertise:

History of imperialism, Christian missionary activity, the Black diaspora, decolonisation and post-colonial relationships, the United Kingdom Overseas Territories, empire and British localities.

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jan-2016	The contribution of black people to the British war effort in two World Wars Chapters  in H.J. Storm and Ali Tuma, eds, Colonial Soldiers in Europe 1914-1945: Aliens in uniform (London: Routledge) (forthcoming)
01-Jan-2016	Pan-African endeavours in the Black Atlantic World, 1890s-1913 Chapters  in Ulrike Kirchenberger, ed., Global Diasporas in the Age of High Imperialism (Leiden: Brill) (forthcoming)
01-Jan-2015	Book Review Review  In Journal of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies; Archaeologia Cantiana.
01-Jan-2015	Demobilization in British and French Africa at the end of the First World War Articles (with Richard Fogarty), Journal of Contemporary History 50, 1 (2015), pp. 100-123.
01-Jan-2015	Hands joined in Brotherhood: the rise and decline of a movement for faith and social change, 1875-2000 Chapters  in Anthony R. Cross, Peter J. Morden, and Ian M. Randall, eds, Pathways and patterns in history. Essays on Baptist, evangelical, and the modern world in honour of David Bebbington (Didcot: Spurgeon’s College and The Baptist Historical Society, 2015), pp. 319-339.
01-Jan-2015	St Nicholas Parish church, Sevenoaks, Kent. A short history Monographs (Sevenoaks, 2015), 20 pp.
01-Jan-2015	The Diaries of Thomas Brem Wilson, 1899-1925 Edited Book  transcribed and edited. With accompanying essay on this pioneer Pentecostal leader in Britain.
01-Jan-2015	Ayub Suliaman Diallo Articles Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online (Oxford University Press) – 1000 words.
01-Aug-2014	Godly examples and agents: training African missionary workers in British institutions in the nineteenth century Chapters in Judith Becker & Brian Stanley, eds, Europe as the Other. External Perspectives on European Christianity (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: vol. 103 in the “Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte. Beihefte” series VIEG. Beihefte, 2014), pp. 165-195.
01-Aug-2014	The Revd. Dr Theophlilus Scholes (1856-1940?): black Baptist critic at the heart of Empire Chapters in Anthony r. Cross and John H.Y. Briggs (eds) Freedom and the Powers: Perspectives from Baptist History (Didcot: Proceedings of the Baptist Historical Society, 2014), pp. 175-202.
06-Jan-2014	'The War in Africa' Edited Book Hew Strachan, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War. New edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
01-Jan-2012	The non-independent territories of the Caribbean and Pacific: Continuity and change Edited Book ed. with Peter Clegg (School of Advanced Study: University of London, 2012). Sevenoaks. An historical dictionary [ed. with Elizabeth Purves] (Phillimore: Chichester, 2012)
01-Jan-2012	British decolonisation and the smaller territories: origins of the UK Overseas Territories [revised version] in Peter Clegg and David Killingray, eds, The non-independent territories of the Caribbean and Pacific: Continuity or change? (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London, 2012), pp. 1-18.
01-Jan-2012	Significant black South Africans in Britain before 1912: Pan-African organisations and the emergence of South Africa’s first black lawyers’ Articles South African Historical Journal 64, 3 (2012), pp. 393-412.
01-Jan-2011	‘African slaves in Britain in the early modern period’ Chapters Klaus Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen and Jochen Oltmer, eds. The Encyclopaedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe. From the Seventeenth century to the Present (Cambridge U.P.), pp. 211-13.
01-Jan-2011	‘New research on the British Empire and the Second World War: Africa at war: voices from below’ Articles special issue of Global War Studies 8, 1 (2011), pp. 7-13, ed. by Ashley Jackson.
01-Jan-2011	‘“Gossiping the Gospel”: indigenous mission in Africa’ Articles Transformation,28, 2 pp. 1-10.
01-Jan-2011	Immigrant communities and British local history Articles The Local Historian. 41, 1 (February 2011), pp. 4-12.
01-Jan-2010	The War in Africa Chapters John Horne, ed., A Companion to World War I(Blackwell: Oxford), pp. 112-26.
01-Jan-2010	Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War Edited Book (Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge 2010; pb edn James Currey, Oxford, 2012)
01-Jan-2010	Influences shaping the human landscape of the Sevenoaks area since c.1600 Articles Archaeologia Cantiana vol. CXXIX (2010), pp. 35-64
01-Jan-2010	Empire and Christian Missions: Opposition, opportunities, obstacles Christianity & History Forum Bulletin (Spring 2010), pp. 31-43
01-Jan-2010	‘“Tin trunk literati” and beyond: hidden sources for Africa’s history’ Articles African Research & Development. No. 112 (2010), pp. 5-13.
01-Jan-2010	‘Thomas Brem-Wilson – Pentecostal pioneer in London and Ghana, 1865-1925’ Papers given as a paper to one seminar and for another in 2010
01-Jan-2010	‘Germs of independence? White prestige, black soldiers and African nationalism after the Second World War’ to Conference on ‘War colours. Black soldiers in European wars’, Amsterdam, 22 January 2010.
01-Jan-2010	‘An African Pentecostal pioneer in Peckham: the “hidden” life of Thomas Brem-Wilson (1865-1929)’ Papers Modern Religious History seminar, Institute of Historical Research, London, 3 February 2010.
01-Jan-2010	‘Milestones in Mission’ St Deniol’s Library, Hawarden, 14 April 2010, and also Wheaton College IL, October 2010.
01-Jan-2010	‘Slave owners in south-east England’ Papers paper to the Legacies of British slave-ownership workshop, University College London, 3 July 2010.
01-Jan-2010	‘Gossiping the Gospel: indigenous missionaries in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries’ Papers lecture to Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, 13 July 2010
01-Jan-2010	‘Transatlantic Pentecostal origins: the diaries of Thomas Brem Wilson, 1899-1925’ Papers lecture to Dept of History/Institute for the Study of Evangelicalism, Wheaton College, IL, 20 September 2010.
01-Jan-2009	‘The impact of immigrant communities on British local history’ Papers paper to conference on ‘Local history in Britain after Hoskins’, Leicester University, July 2009.
01-Jan-2009	‘How global is the history of the First World War?’ Papers roundtable paper to International Conference on the First World War, Imperial War Museum, London, 10-12 September 2009.
01-Jan-2009	‘Africans at war’ Papers plenary lecture to Conference on Africa and the Second World War, University of Birmingham, December 2009.
01-Jan-2009	‘Rethinking the Pan-African Conference 1900’ Papers (given as a paper to a seminar 2009).
01-Jan-2009	Rights, land, and labour: Black British critics of South African polices before 1948 Articles Journal of Southern African Studies, 35, 2 (2009), pp. 375-398.
01-Jan-2009	Grassroots politics in West Kent since the mid-eighteenth century Articles Archaeologia Cantiana, CXXVIII, pp. 33-54.
01-Jan-2009	'A Good West Indian, a Good African, and, in Short, a Good Britisher' Black and British in a Colour-Conscious Empire, 1760-1950’ Chapters Robert Holland and Sarah Stockwell, eds, Ambiguities of Empire (Routledge,London
01-Jan-2009	A pandemia de gripe de 1918-1919: causas, evolução e consequências Chapters José Manuel Sobral et al., eds, A Pandemia Esquecida: Olhares comparados sobre a pneumónica 1918-19 (Forgotten Pandemic: Comparative views on the Spanish ‘Influenza: 1918-19). Lisboa: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2009), pp. 41-61.
01-Jan-2008	‘Black evangelicals in darkest Britain, 1760s-1930s’ Chapters Evangelical Identities, Vol. 1, ed. M. Smith (Paternoster, Carlisle), pp.128-42
01-Jan-2008	The Pleasant Sunday Afternoon movement: Revival in the West Midlands Chapters K. Cooper & J. Gregory, (eds), Revival and Resurgence in Christian History (Blackwell, Studies in Church History, vol. 44), pp. 262-74
01-Jan-2008	‘Getting into print: Black writers in Britain, 1770-1950’ Papers given as a paper to two seminars, 2008 and 2009
01-Jan-2007	Black Voices: the shaping of our Christian experiences Edited Book [with Joel Edwards] (IVP: Nottingham, 2007)
01-Jan-2007	‘Amgoza LoBagola’, and ‘Felix Hercules’ Chapters H. Gates & Higginbotham (eds,) African-American Dictionary of Biography (OUP, NY, 2008), (Oxford U.P), Vol. 4, pp. 201-3, and Vol. 5, pp. 286-7.
01-Jan-2007	Frederic Schön’, ‘George Ekim Ferguson’ J. Harrison, ed., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (supplement on-line) [2,000 words].
01-Jan-2007	'Afrikanische Sklaven in Grossbritannien in der Frueher Neuzeit' Chapters in Klaus J.Bade, Pieter C. Emmer, Leo Lucassen und Jochen Oltmer, eds, Enzyklopädie Migration in Europa vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (Ferdinand Schoningh, Paderborn & Wilhelm Fink, Munich, 2007), pp. 362-364.
01-Jan-2007	‘Kent and the abolition of the slave trade: a county study, 1760s-1807’ Chapters Archaeologia Cantiana CXVIII (2007), pp. 107-25
01-Jan-2007	An African hermeneutic: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano and slavery 1787 Chapters Anvil. An Anglican evangelical journal for theology and mission, 24, 2 (2007), pp.105-27
01-Jan-2007	‘Britain, the slave trade and slavery to 1807’ Chapters Christianity and History Bulletin, 3 (2007), pp. 5-19.
01-Jan-2007	‘Lessons from history: great pandemics of the past’ Papers symposia on Key Advances in the Clinical Management of Influenza, The Royal Society of Medicine, 12 February 2007.
01-Jan-2007	‘The Black contribution to nineteenth-century West African travel’ Papers conference on Exploring and being Explored: Africa in the Nineteenth Century, National Maritime Museum, 30-31 March 2007.
01-Jan-2007	‘African mortality in the influenza pandemic 1918-19’ Papers conference on Death in Africa, University of Cambridge, 4-5 May 2007.
01-Jan-2007	Nonconformity and abolition Papers lecture, Friends House, London, 25 October 2007
01-Jan-2007	‘The influenza pandemic 1918-19: causes, courses, and consequences’ Papers Instituto de Ciências Socials, Lisbon, November 2007
01-Jan-2006	‘Sounds of weeping and the silence of history: the influenza pandemic of 1918-19’ Chapters in Pekka Hämäläinen, ed., When disease makes history: Epidemics and great historical turning points (University of Helsinki Press), pp. 227-55.
01-Jan-2006	‘African civilians in the era of the Second world War, c.1935-1950’ Chapters in John Laband, ed., Daily Life of Civilians in wartime Africa: From slavery days to Rwandan genocide (Greenwood Press, 2006), pp. 139-67.
01-Jan-2006	‘Black people in Britain since 1550’, ‘Wilberforce’, ‘Harold Moody’ Chapters Encyclopedia of African Atlantic Relations, ed. A. Rice & A.M. Leonard(ABC-CLIO, 2006).
01-Jan-2005	The United Kingdom Overseas Territories: Past, present and future Edited Book (ed. with David Taylor) (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 2005)

Relevant Events

Related events:

Date	Details
06-Jul-2015	Black British Christians 1770-1890: responses to slavery and the slave trade  Paper to ‘Slavery and its Legacies Project’ seminar, Open University, Camden Town, London 6 July 2015.
30-Jun-2015	Black voices on Britain’s Two World Wars  Paper to conference on ‘Minorities in Armies: Ethnicity, Race, and Alienage’, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, 30 June 2015.
22-May-2015	The Shaping of Chinese Christianity  Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Oxford, 22-23 May 2015.
15-Apr-2015	Black clergy of the Established Church in England 1765-c.1950 Christianity & History forum conference, All Nations Christian College, Easneye, Herts, 15-17 April 2015.
15-Apr-2015	Black clergy of the Established Church in England 1765-c.1950 Christianity & History forum conference, All Nations Christian College, Easneye, Herts, 15-17 April 2015.
23-Dec-2014	Four lectures on aspects of the Indian Oceanic world Four lectures on aspects of the Indian Oceanic world, ‘Cruises in Antiquity’, Indian Ocean, 23 December 2014-7 January 2015.
20-Nov-2014	Whose Remembrance discussant at a roundtable, University of Leeds. 20 November 2014.
11-Nov-2014	The impact of the Great War on Africa 1911-26(?) Guest lecture: University of Hull, 11 November 2014.
02-Oct-2014	Catastrophe or catalyst? The Great War and Africa 1911-26(?)  Conference on ‘Africa and World War One’, Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Bayreuth University, Germany, 2-4 October 2014.
22-Sep-2014	PhD examinar Nottingham University
10-Sep-2014	'The demand for rights: pan-Africanism in the black Atlantic world 1890s-1913'' Paper to conference on 'Global diasporas in the age of high imperialism', Kassel University, Germany
16-Jul-2014	'The Forgotten Soldiers' Roundtable discussion to panel on 'The Great War and the World', British Library
11-Jul-2014	Anglo-American Conference 2014 On panel of organisers, and chair of session at the annual conference, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
05-Jun-2014	'Writing Black British Biography' Paper to Fellows seminar, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
14-Mar-2014	'Politics in the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies' Co-organiser (with Dr Peter Clegg) for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, at University College London
28-Feb-2014	'Localities, nations and empire: Britain and Ieland in times of crisis, 1912-22' Co-organiser and contributor of a paper to conference on 'Experiences of World War One: Strangers, differences and locality'. A local history workshop organised by the BALH/ICwS at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
27-Feb-2014	Africa and the Great War: comparative perspectives  Closing summary and general discussion: ‘Africa and the Great War: comparative perspectives’, Workshop, St Cross College, Oxford, Friday 27 February 2015.
25-Feb-2014	'Hartslands, Sevenoaks - the development of a working class 'village' in a Kent market town, 1841-1912' Paper (with Dr Iain Taylor) to Regional and Local History seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
06-Feb-2014	'The impact of the Great War on sub-Saharan Africa' Opening Lecture in series on 'The Great War', Trondheim University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
11-Jan-2014	'Black colonial soldiers in the British Army in the two World Wars' Paper to symposium on 'Colonial soldiers in Europe (1900-1950)', Institute for History, Leiden University.
07-Dec-2013	'A small but persistent presence: people of African origin and descent in Kent since c.1600' Organiser with Dr Elizabeth Edwards, and paper to conference on 'Kent: immigration and emigration', University of Kent, Canterbury
28-Nov-2013	'East Africa' Paper to Workshop on 'The Great War in Africa: the feedback effects', Trinity College Dublin
13-Nov-2013	'The Revd Dr Theophilus Scholes: Baptist missionary and critic of Empire' Paper to Global Mission seminar, University of London
03-Oct-2013	'Black travellers in 19th century Africa' Paper to African History seminar, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI.
01-Aug-2012	PhD supervisor Co-supervisor of two PhD students, one at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, the other at Spurgeon's College London

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