Presenting a Database of British Slave-Owners

Keith McClelland presents the construction, research potential and first analyses of a groundbreaking database of British Slave Owners. Earlier publications include Race, Nation and Empire: making histories 1750 to the present, edited with Catherine Hall (Manchester University Press, 2010); with Catherine Hall and Jane Rendall, Defining the Victorian Nation (2000) and, with Sonya Rose, 'Citizenship and Empire, 1867-1928' in At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World, ed. Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose (2006), pp. 275-97. This presentation will also include the possibilities of and requirements for building a comparative European database.