Interview with Catherine Hall

The winner of this year’s Leverhulme Medal discusses what it means to be a feminist historian and how contemporary politics, and a surprising find in Jamaica, changed her research

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September 30, 2021

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Anna McKie

Catherine Hall, chair of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at UCL, and winner of 2021 Leverhulme Medal and Prize

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