Staff profiles
Professor Clare Midgley
PhD, Research professor in history
Phone 0114 225 3788
E-mail c.c.midgley@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
- My main area of research to date has involved exploring the interconnections between the history of women with the history of the British Empire. I also have an interest in the history of commemoration.
- My publications have explored British women's involvement in the anti-slavery movement, gender and imperialism, and feminism and empire
- I am currently working on a transnational history of liberal religion, social reform and the woman question. My project explores connections between Unitarians and members of the Brahmo Samaj in Britain, India and America
Research collaborations
I am a convenor of the Women's History Seminar and the Reconfiguring the British Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
I have been involved in a number of collaborative projects with the Women's Library in London and have acted as academic adviser for events around the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.
Research outputs since 2001
Books
'The dissenting voice of Elizabeth Heyrick: an exploration of the links between gender, religious dissent and anti-slavery radicalism' in E.J. Clapp and J. R. Jeffrey, eds, Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2010)
'Women and reform cultures' in S. Morgan and J de Vries, eds, Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain 1800-1940 (Routledge, 2010)
Feminism and Empire: Women Activists in Imperial Britain, 1790-1865 (Routledge, forthcoming, September 2007)
'British anti-slavery and feminism in transatlantic perspective' in K.K. Sklar and J. Steward, eds, Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic Slavery and Women's Rights (Yale University Press, 2007
Bringing the empire home: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790-1930' in c. Hall and S. Rose, eds, At Home with the Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2006
Journal articles
'Can women be missionaries? Envisioning female agency in the early nineteenth-century British Empire', Journal of British Studies, 45, 2 (April 2006), pp. 335-358
