Catherine Hall

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Catherine Hall (born February 18, 1946 in Kettering ) is a British historian . She is also politically active as a feminist.

Life

Catherine Hall received her PhD from the University of East London in 1992 . She is Professor Emeritus of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London . There she is at the Center for the Study of the Consequences of British Slave Ownership (Legacies of British Slave Ownership), a project funded by the ESRC from 2004 to 2012.

She deals with British cultural and social history from the 18th century, often from a gender perspective. A recent focus of her research is the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries, its influence on urban life in England and the lives of individuals in different parts of the Empire. For example, she looked at the image of slavery in English history. With the Abolition Act of 1833 this was abolished in large parts of the Empire (and trade was officially banned under the Slave Trade Act of 1807), which, according to Hall, served to calm the conscience of the British public and to suppress the role of slavery in their history. Hall particularly focused on slavery in the Caribbean. She built an online database of around 3,000 British slaveholders who were compensated by the state under the Abolition Act of 1833 (totaling around £ 10 million, half of the total that went to 47,000 slaveholders and almost half of the annual British State budget), and explored how the money boosted the British economy, while comparable funding and capital formation were lacking with the eventual independence of the Caribbean states for their development.

Catherine Hall is the sister of psychoanalyst Margaret Rustin . In 1964 she married the Jamaican sociologist Stuart Hall (1932-2014).

Awards

In 2016, she was to receive the Tel Aviv University's Dan David Prize, endowed with £ 225,000, in the field of social history, which she turned down for political reasons. According to her own statements, she made this "independent political decision" after having had many conversations with people who are "deeply involved in Israel-Palestine politics".

For 2017 Hall was awarded the Bochum Historian Prize, which is endowed with 25,000 €.

Catherine Hall is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was elected to the British Academy in 2018 .

Fonts

  • with Leonore Davidoff : Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780–1850 , 1987, new edition Routledge 2002
  • White, Male And Middle-Class: Explorations In Feminism And History , Wiley 1992 (Essays)
  • Editor with Ida Blom, Karen Hagemann : Gendered Nations: Nationalisms And Gender Order In The Long Nineteenth Century , 2000
  • Editor with Keith McClelland, Jane Rendall: Defining The Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender And The British Reform Act Of 1867 , 2000
  • Publisher: Cultures Of Empire: Colonisers In Britain And The Empire In Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries , 2000
  • Civilizing Subjects: Metropole And Colony In The English Imagination, 1830–1867 , Wiley 2002 (won the 2002 Morris D. Forkasch Prize for best book on British history)
  • Editor with Keith McClelland: Race, Nation and Empire: Making Histories, 1750 to the Present , 2010
  • Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain , London: Yale University Press 2012
  • with Nicholas Draper, Keith McClelland, Katie Donington, Rachel Lang: Legacies of British Slave ‑ Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain , Cambridge UP 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sam Jones: Follow the money: investigators trace forgotten story of Britain's slave trade . In: The Guardian . August 27, 2013.
  2. ↑ Gabriel Samuels: British historian Catherine Hall rejects £ 225,000 Israeli award for 'political' reasons . In: The Independent . May 24, 2016.
  3. ^ Dan David Price. Love of progress . In: Jüdische Allgemeine . June 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Historian Prize for Catherine Hall. In: waz.de. September 15, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  5. ↑ A lock as a key. Jamaica exploitation: Catherine Hall receives the Bochumer Historikerpreis in FAZ on November 17, 2017, page 12
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Kettering