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Dr Hannah-Rose Murray
Lecturer in History
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- h.murray2@uos.ac.uk
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- School of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray is an interdisciplinary historian researching the Black freedom struggle in the U.S. and in Britain. Her research specifically focuses on Black American activism in Britain and Ireland during the long nineteenth century. She has organized numerous collaborative community and public engagement events including talks, performances, podcasts, plays, exhibitions and walking tours on both sides of the Atlantic, and has been involved in / curated the erection of three heritage plaques to Black Americans on British soil. She is currently working with Historic England, local councils, schools and various groups across the country to celebrate and commemorate this history.
She is currently working on two monographs entitled Daguerreotyped on My Heart: African American Visual and Literary Cultures in c19th Britain and Feelings of Rebellion: Black Autobiography in Britain 1850-1877 (both published with Liverpool University Press).
Before starting at the University, she has studied at UCL (BA), Royal Holloway (MA), University of Nottingham (PhD) and has worked for Nottingham, University of Edinburgh and Queen Mary, University of London.
Hannah-Rose has taught on a wide range of topics related to U.S., transatlantic and British history, focusing on race, heritage, archives, and the social justice movement. I hope to bring some of this expertise to Suffolk in the not-too-distant future.
I am currently teaching:
- Making History (MA)
- Empire Since 1600 (UG)
- Dictators and Democracy (UG)
- Genocide in History and Memory (UG)
Hannah has worked on several collaborative projects with community groups, local councils, museums, archives, libraries, TV and radio, and heritage organizations and has given talks, presentations and conference papers in several countries. She has written for the BBC History Magazine, The Guardian, and is a board member of the international organisation Globe Lane, which seeks to promote and preserve the legacy and memory of Frederick Douglass worldwide. She currently leads in-person and online walking tours of London and several other cities.
Selected Publications:
Forthcoming Monographs
Daguerreotyped on My Heart: African American Visual Performance in Britain 1850-1870 (Liverpool University Press, 2026)
Feelings of Rebellion: African American Autobiography in Britain 1850-1877 (Liverpool University Press, 2026)
Anthologies:
With Celeste-Marie Bernier. African American Narratives in the British Isles (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
With Celeste-Marie Bernier. African American Speeches in the British Isles (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Assistant Editor for The Frederick Douglass Papers. Series Three Correspondence 1866-1880, by John Kaufman-McKivigan et al. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024)
With John Kaufman-McKivigan. Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland 1845-1895 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Monograph:
Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Journal Articles:
With Calvin Schermerhorn: “Jacob D. Green and Britain’s Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist Network.” Slavery & Abolition, Published online February 2024.
‘“The Black People’s Side of the Story”: The Historical and Transatlantic Roots of the Movement for Black Lives’, African American Review, 56:1-2 (2023), 9-26
“Did You Ever Hear of Egypt or Carthage?” Moses Roper’s Visual Performative Techniques in the British Isles.’ Kalfou, (Published online January 2023)
‘“Death or Liberty”: Henry Box Brown Personificating Himself in Edward Gascoigne Burton’s The Fugitive Free and The Nubian Captive.” Journal of American Studies, 55:5 (2021), 1071-1097
‘“It is to a great extent, a new book”: Josiah Henson, John Lobb and White Editorship of Black Texts.’ Black Activist Series, Atlantic Studies, 18:4 (2021), 512-525.
‘“I Shall Speak Out Against This and Other Evils:” African American Activism in the British Isles 1865-1903.’ Special Edition: Strike for Freedom, Slavery & Abolition 40:1 (2020), 79-92.
“With Almost Electric Speed: Mapping African Abolitionists in Britain and Ireland 1837-1847.” Slavery & Abolition, 40:3 (2019), 522-542.
‘“It is All A Thing of the Past”: An Interview with Frederick Douglass in 1886.” African American Review, 51:2 (Summer 2018), 81-93.
Chapters in Edited Collections:
“Frederick Douglass in the British Isles.” In (ed). Michael Roy, Frederick Douglass in Context, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
‘“The Real Uncle Tom”: Josiah Henson in Britain 1877.’ In ed. Dirk Goettsche, Memory and Postcolonial Studies: Synergies and New Directions Across Literatures from Europe, Africa and the Americas (New York: Peter Lang, 2019)
‘“Monstrous Perversions and Lying Inventions.” Moses Roper’s Resistance to the British Imagination of Slavery and Abolition.’ In ed. Andrew Dix, Violence in the American Imagination (London: Routledge, 2019).
Associate Fellow
Royal Historical Society
British Association for American Studies (BAAS)
BrANCA