Monthly Archives: July 2012

New Release! (Esme Cleall, Missionary Discourses of Difference)

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Family & Colonialism Research Network

I just want to do a quick announcement today: our very own Esme Cleall has a book hot off the press! Entitled Missionary Discourses of Difference: Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900, Esme’s book interrogates the ways in which … Continue reading →

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‘Home and Away: Girls of the British Empire’ and other announcements

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Family & Colonialism Research Network

This is a very belated announcement about the Girl Museum‘s fabulous new exhibition, ‘Home and Away: Girls of the British Empire.’ I was lucky to be in Melbourne at the excellent conference on colonial girls and colonial girlhood when the … Continue reading →

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Inez Hollander’s Silenced Voices

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Family & Colonialism Research Network

Inez Hollander’s Silenced Voices was one of those accidental library finds: deep in the stacks, while looking for something else, I stumbled across a book that I would have loved to read years ago. Thankfully it’s never too late, and … Continue reading →

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