Catherine hall sussex

British academic (born )

For other people named Catherine Hall, see Catherine Hall (disambiguation).

Catherine HallFBA FRHistS (born ) is a British academic.

She is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London and chair of its digital scholarship project, the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.

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Her work as a feminist historian focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries, and the themes of gender, class, race, and empire.

Early life and education

Catherine Barrett (later Hall) was born in in Kettering, Northamptonshire.^[1] Her father, John Barrett, was a Baptist minister, while her mother, Gladys, came from a family of millers.^[2] Her parents met at Oxford University, where Gladys was studying history.

When Catherine was three years old, the family moved to Leeds, Yorkshire, and she grew up there in a non-conformist household; both parents were "radical Labour". She went