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Tag Archives: British Empire
REVIEW: Welsh Missionaries and British imperialism by Andrew May (Manchester University Press, 2013)
I have recently been reading Andrew May’s Welsh missionaries and British imperialism for a review in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial Studies and can say that it is both excellent, and beautifully written. Focusing on the experience of both … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Publications
Tagged British Empire, India, intimacy, missionaries, religion, scandal, settler colonialism
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New publications and a CFP of interest
This Sunday, I’d like to highlight three new ‘happenings’ in the field of colonial family history: First, we are delighted to announce the publication of a special journal issue on families in the British Empire — the recent Spring 2013 … Continue reading
Posted in Calls for Papers, Events, Publications
Tagged ancestry, British Empire, genealogy, Hawaii, intimacy, knowledge, methodology
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Reflections on ‘Chocolate, women and empire’ by Emma Robertson
I am currently in the process of reviewing Emma Robertson’s Chocolate, women and empire for the Women’s History Review, and am very much enjoying it. Though you’ll have to wait on WHR for the official review, something that occurred to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Information, Publications
Tagged British Empire, economics, food history, gender, imperial Britain, methodology, race
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New Release! (Esme Cleall, Missionary Discourses of Difference)
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
Posted in Book Reviews, Publications
Tagged British Empire, culture, difference, family, gender, India, missionaries, race, religion, sickness, southern Africa, violence
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‘Home and Away: Girls of the British Empire’ and other announcements
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
Posted in Blogs, Calls for Papers, Conference, Databases and Websites
Tagged British Empire, childhood, gender, girlhood
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