Professor of Imperial and Global History
Professor of Early American History
Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century International History
Professor of Medieval History
Senior Lecturer in German & History
Lecturer in British Imperial History
Professor of Imperial & Commonwealth History
Professor in Modern History; Vice-Dean (Education)
Books written or edited by Hub members:
Richard Drayton
- Ed. with Saul Dubow, Commonwealth History in the Twenty-First Century (London, 2020)
- Whose Constitution? Law, Justice and History in the Caribbean (Port of Spain, 2016)
- Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' World (London and New Haven, 2000)
Max Edling
- Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the U.S. Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2021 [Audiobook Tantor Media, 2021]).
- Co-edited with Peter Kastor, Washington’s Government: Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration (University of Virginia Press, 2021).
- The Creation of the Constitution (American Historical Association and the Institute for Constitutional Studies, 2018)
- .A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State 1783-1867 (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
- A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (Oxford University Press, 2003 [pbk 2008]).
Bérénice Guyot-Réchard
- Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-62 (Cambridge, 2016)
- Ed. With Elisabeth Leake, South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent (Leiden, forthcoming)
Peter Heather
- The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Orion, 2005).
- Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development, and State Formation in the First Millennium (Orion, 2009).
- Rome Resurgent: War & Empire in the Age of Justinian (OUP, 2018)
- Christendom: Triumph of a Religion (Penguin, 2022 forthcoming).
- With John Rapley, WHY EMPIRES FALL: America, Rome and the Decline of the West (Penguin, in press).
Jean Smith
- Settlers at the End of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia and the United Kingdom (Manchester, 2022)
Sarah Stockwell
- Co-edited with Véronique Dimier, The Business of Development in Post-Colonial Africa (Palgrave, 2021)
- The British End of the British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
- Co-edited with L.J. Butler, The Wind of Change. Harold Macmillan and British Decolonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
- Ed., The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires, Volume III: Economics and Politics
- Co-edited with Robert Holland, Ambiguities of Empire. Essays in Honour of Andrew Porter (Routledge, 2009).
- Ed., The British Empire. Themes and Perspectives (Blackwell, 2008)
- The Business of Decolonisation. British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast (Oxford University Press, 2000)
- Co-edited with S.R. Ashton, Imperial Policy and Colonial Practice, 1925-45 (British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A, Volume 1, HMSO, 1996).
Jon Wilson
- The Domination of Strangers. Modern Governance in Eastern India, c.1785-1830 (2008)
- India Conquered. Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire (2016) (published in North America as The Chaos of Empire. The British Raj and the Conquest of India
Institutions and the Colonial Past, 20 May 2022
Bringing together researchers at universities, museums and other heritage organisations, this workshop will focus on the practicalities and challenges of researching and presenting work on the colonial past (broadly defined) of institutions. The aim of the workshop is to learn from one another’s experience and to form an ongoing network.