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The investigation and representation of multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England and Wales (2024)
Thesis
Colley, S. The investigation and representation of multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England and Wales. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867065

This thesis explores the challenges of investigating multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE). There is a lack of overall knowledge of who the offenders are within this form of sexual offending against children. This research addresses this... Read More about The investigation and representation of multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England and Wales.

Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25] (2024)
Book
Burnard, T., & O'Shaughnessy, A. J. (in press). Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25]. Yale University Press

At the time of the American Revolution (1765–83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Scotland. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinc... Read More about Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25].

Settler Colonialism and early American History (2024)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T., & Delahaye, A. (2024). Settler Colonialism and early American History. In E. Peyrol-Kleiber, L. Roper, B. Van Ruymbeke, & A. Delahaye (Eds.), Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800 (153-178). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526167347.00016

Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the... Read More about Settler Colonialism and early American History.

Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law (2024)
Journal Article
Ogunniyi, D. (2024). Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law. Human Rights Law Review, 24(1), Article ngad043. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngad043

Although climate change is among the main ecological crisis the world is grappling with today, relevant discourses on the subject often focus exclusively on the existential threats it presents ignoring other associated risks, including how it exacerb... Read More about Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law.

Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery (2024)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. M. (2024). Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery. Journal of global slavery, 9(3), 336-371. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00903012

For most scholars of slavery, the pairing of the terms ‘voluntary’ and ‘slavery’ remains problematic. The dominant model of slavery defines it as an involuntary status, in which people—according to the liberal model of ownership—were reduced to ‘thin... Read More about Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery.

Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations (2023)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Coffey, J. (2023). Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations. Histories of People and Place, 18(1-2), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/28334299.2023.2283117

Slave registers are a major source for the study of British colonial slavery in its final two decades, yet they have been little used by historians. The article employs two case studies to show how these records allow us to reconstruct a collective p... Read More about Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations.

Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions (2023)
Thesis
Baker, J. Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4500549

In 1986, Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, received a letter from a former child migrant called Mary, who had been deported to Australia at the age of six. Mary pleaded with Humphreys to help her be reunited with her birth family.... Read More about Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions.

'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya (2023)
Thesis
Farah, F. 'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4571172

My research deals with slavery and its legacies in Mombasa, Kenya. The ethnic tensions that exist today in Mombasa have their roots in two historical legacies, slavery and colonialism. Seeds of inequalities planted during those two periods still dict... Read More about 'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya.

The Other British Colonies (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2023). The Other British Colonies. In W. Klooster (Ed.), The Enlightenment and the British Colonies (248-68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567671

Britain had a substantial Atlantic empire during the era of the Atlantic Revolutions. Only some of their Atlantic colonies joined in the colonial rebellion that led to the creation of the United States. The end of the American Revolution signaled a n... Read More about The Other British Colonies.