Catherine Hall

Biographic Data

ID3662828
NAMECatherine Hall
GIVEN NAMESCatherine
FAMILY NAMEHall
SIGNATUREHALL C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0009-0006-1676-0989
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS75
TOTAL CITATIONS85
AUTHOR COUNT72
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Thinking about repair

    Open AccessCatherine HallARTICLEIdentities2026

    s reviews of Lucky Valley: Its particularly valuable for an historian to be able to reflect on the comments of two sociologists and a political scientist.We share a concern with questions of race/racisms, colonialism and capitalism across past and present from our different disciplinary perspectives.Both Bhambra and Bufkin raise vital questions about repair and reparation.Bhambra has argued elsewhere for a 'reparatory sociology' (Bhambra et al. 2…

  • A Discussion of David W. Blight’s Yale and Slavery: A History

    Open AccessCatherine HallARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2025

  • Enslavement: Past and Present by Orlando Patterson (review)

    Open AccessCatherine HallARTICLEJournal of Colonialism and…2025

  • History as Redress and Repair

    C M Hall, Catherine HallARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2025

    This essay is a response to the questions raised by the five forum panelists who have commented on Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024). It argues that the analysis of the life and writings of Edward Long is an intervention in the work of repair associated with the legacies of New World slavery

  • Questions of Race and Repair: Then and Now

    Open AccessCatherine HallARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2025

    Knowledge about a history, it is beginning to be recognized, is a first step in reckoning with the long-term legacies of Britain's role in the making of modern slavery. But what does it mean now for historians of Britain to focus on questions of race and repair? This essay reflects on the genealogy of the idea of reparation in Britain, asking how reflecting on the past might help us to think about the present and the future

  • Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism

    Open AccessCatherine HallBOOKLucky Valley2024

    Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history and social theory, carefully mapping the island, and drawing on poetry and engravings, in his efforts to establish a clear and fixed racialized hierarchy. His White family sat at the heart of Jamaican planter society and the We…

  • Lucky Valley: A roundtable

    Open AccessMiles Ogborn, Herman L Bennett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2024Cited by: 1

  • Roundtable: Linking the legacies of British slave-ownership to Australian colonisation

    Open AccessZoë Laidlaw, Catherine Hall et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Biography…2022

  • Racial Capitalism: What's in a Name

    Open AccessCatherine HallARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2022Cited by: 2

    Racial capitalism is a way of talking about the intersections of racisms and capitalisms: but how does it operate in practice? This essay explores the derivation of the term and focuses on one concrete example from the eighteenth-century Atlantic. Hereditary racial slavery and mercantile capitalism were articulated together: the expropriation of African lives and labour enabled the production of wealth for slave-owners and merchants. Both the met…

  • Stuart Hall, a peerless mediator

    G Mclennan, Bruce Robbins et al.ARTICLESoundings2021

    The authors discuss Stuart Hall's lifelong critical engagement with Marxism - though his was a complex, subtle, agonistic, Marxism, where nothing is taken for granted. This engagement continued even as postcoloniality, ethnicity, race and identity steadily came to the centre of Hall's attention, constituting ways of thinking that in some ways represented a departure. Hall can be seen as a mediator, both within Marxism - for example structuralism …

  • The legacies of British slave ownership Catherine Hall talks to Ruth

    Catherine Hall, Ruth Ramsden-KarelseARTICLESoundings2021Cited by: 1

    The Legacies of British Slave Ownership project has explored the significance of slavery to Britain's history, including in the wealth it generated for industrialisation. Such research is crucial for understanding the present, given that disavowal of these legacies has been central to white British thinking. Its mapping of compensation awarded after abolition showed the widespread incidence of slave ownership across the whole of the UK. A further…

  • The Slavery Business and the Making of "Race" in Britain and the Caribbean

    Catherine HallARTICLECurrent Anthropology2020Cited by: 5References: 12

    This paper discusses the work of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project, which has focused on the significance of British slave owners between the mid-eighteenth century and the time of emancipation (1834) as a way of countering the erasure of the slavery business in popular memory. Slave owners were granted 20 million pounds in 1834 in compensation for the loss of "their property." The documentation of this has made it possible to creat…

  • What is a West Indian

    Open AccessCatherine HallCHAPTERWest Indian Intellectuals in…2018

    This chapter is concerned with the islands, and parts of the mainland, which were colonised by the British from the early seventeenth century and named as the British West Indies. The British West Indian colonies formed a link between North and South America and were strategically vital to the European powers. The task of the West India interest was to lobby the government and counter the abolitionists. The naming of black regiments as West India…

  • Britain and the World: A New Field

    Open AccessTehila Sasson, James Vernon et al.ARTICLEJournal of British Studies2018Cited by: 6References: 23

    Over the past decade, historians, journals, conferences, and even job advertisements have devoted attention to a new field of inquiry, "Britain and the world." This emergent category is far from coherent but, despite a variety of approaches, shares a common assumption that Britain's interactions with the world beyond its shores enable us to better understand the histories of both Britain and the globe. Writing the history of Britain from a compar…

  • Doing reparatory history: Bringing 'Race' and Slavery Home

    Open AccessCatherine HallARTICLERace & Class2018Cited by: 35References: 16

    This article asks whether history writing can be reparatory. Opening with a discussion of the bi-centenary of the abolition of the slave trade in 2007 and the national conversation that was created at that time, it goes on to reflect on contestations over memory and the significance of the emergence of reparations as a key term with which to think about the wrongs of the past and the possibilities of repair. It uses a discussion of the author's i…

  • Macaulay and Son

    Catherine HallBOOKMacaulay and Son2017

    Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, intellectual, and political roots of Thomas Macaulay’s…

  • Going a-Trolloping: Imperial man travels the Empire

    Catherine HallCHAPTERGender and Imperialism2017

    This chapter, unlike most writing on Anthony Trollope, focuses on his travel books rather than his fiction (the forty-seven novels). Trollope's travel writing, and indeed his travels, was focused on the Empire. For Trollope the Empire was central to Englishness, part of what was special about the Anglo-Saxon race. Racial difference was part of the everyday life of Victorian men and women. Trollope's mapping of imperial places and peoples, embedde…

  • Thinking About Denial

    Open AccessCatherine Hall, D PickARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2017Cited by: 5

    This essay considers the frequent and varied uses of 'denial' in modern political discourse, suggests the specific psychoanalytic meanings the term has acquired and asks how useful this Freudian concept may be for historians. It notes the debates among historians over the uses of psychoanalysis, but argues that concepts such as 'denial', 'disavowal', 'splitting' and 'negation' can help us to understand both individual and group behaviour. The aut…

  • Gendering Property, Racing Capital

    Catherine HallARTICLEOxford University Press eBooks2017Cited by: 2

    This chapter takes one of the central subjects of economic and social history—the development of capitalism—and reinterprets classical debates through the lens of ‘race’ and gender. Drawing on impressive new research on British slave ownership in the Caribbean (the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project at UCL), it argues that gender and ‘race’ not only structured the organization of property and power in slave society but were also historic…

  • Thinking Reflexively: Opening 'Blind Eyes

    Open AccessCatherine HallARTICLEPast & Present2017Cited by: 1

  • Writing History, Making ‘Race’: Slave-Owners and Their Stories

    Catherine HallARTICLEAustralian Historical Studies2016Cited by: 3

    This article uses the database created by the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs) which documents the recipients of the twenty million pounds paid in compensation to the slave-owners at the time of abolition, as a starting point from which to explore some of the implications of the flow of human and financial capital to Australia in the 1830s and 1840s. Once the Caribbean was no longer a place to make a fortune, descen…

  • Emancipation and the remaking of the British imperial world

    Julian Hoppit, Catherine Hall et al.BOOKEmancipation and the Remaking of…2015

  • Leonore Davidoff 1932-2014

    Catherine HallARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2015

    Journal Article Leonore Davidoff 1932–2014 Get access Catherine Hall Catherine Hall UCL, London WC1E 6BT [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 80, Issue 1, Autumn 2015, Pages 319–328, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbv031 Published: 23 September 2015

  • Macaulay’s History of England: A Book That Shaped Nation and Empire

    Open AccessCatherine HallCHAPTERTen Books That Shaped the British…2014

  • Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

    Open AccessCatherine Hall, Keith Mcclelland et al.BOOKLegacies of British Slave-Ownership2014

    This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It t…