Troubling the Island Story
The Impact and Legacy of Catherine Hall’s Historical Work in and beyond Britain
Troubling the Island Story
The Impact and Legacy of Catherine Hall’s Historical Work in and beyond Britain
Description
This edited collection engages with the work of the eminent historian Catherine Hall and her influence on the development of recent British Historiography. Over her career Hall has had a pivotal impact on a number of historiographical and disciplinary fields including British History, Colonial, Imperial and Postcolonial Studies, Gender History, Geography, Education, and Museum Studies. In analysing and responding to her work this volume makes a critical intervention into these inter-disciplinary fields.
Providing a distinctive intellectual history of Hall's work and its impact, as well as an accessible route into a range of historiographical and interdisciplinary areas, the essays in this volume bring together leading scholars in the field of critical colonial studies to tackle unanswered questions raised by Hall's work and expand on them. Exploring themes such as masculinity, history writing, historical geography and histories of the home as well as tracing Hall's intellectual trajectory and its relationship to shifting historiographical debates, Troubling the Island Story offers a clear and accessible insight into the changing shape of British historiography over the last forty years.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Esme Cleall (University of Sheffield, UK), Fae Dussart (University of Sussex, UK) and Onni Gust (University of Nottingham, UK)
1. Catherine Hall: a friendship in history, the stranger inside, Sally Alexander (King's College London, UK)
2, From Family Fortunes (1987) to Defining the Victorian Nation (2000): Catherine Hall on the place of the political, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall, (University College London, UK)
3. Positioning history-writing: the Supervisor, the Self, the Psyche and the Subject, Esme Cleall (University of Sheffield, UK)
4. Mapping Civilizing Subjects: Catherine Hall's geographical imagination, David Lambert (University of Warwick, UK)
5. 'The Secret Places of Life': History, the Novel and Catherine Hall, Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary University, London)
6. 'Gender, sexuality, and the queer possibilities of Catherine Hall's historical scholarship', Onni Gust (University of Nottingham, UK)
7. 'Revealing the political in the private', Fae Dussart (University of Sussex)
8. At (the other) home with empire: colonialism and history-writing between Britain and Canada – or, the view from Canada, Laura Ishiguro (University of British Colombia, Canada) and Adele Perry (University of Manitoba, Canada)
9. Britain and India Redux: the relevance of Catherine Hall for Indian History, Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan, USA)
10. Reflections on Catherine Hall's Embedded Hermeneutics of Irreparable History, David Scott (Columbia University, USA)
11. De-centring the 'civilising' curriculum, Jason Todd (University of Oxford, UK)
12. My Name is Covered in Blood, Tre Ventour-Griffiths (Independent scholar)
13. An unequal inheritance: slavery, family history, and the legacies of British slave-ownership, Katie Donington (The Open University, UK)
14. History painting: museum narratives of empire and slavery in Britain and the work of Catherine Hall, Liberty Patterson (University of York, UK)
Epilogue: Catherine Hall (University College London, UK) and Meleisa Ono-George (University of Oxford, UK) in conversation
Product details
| Published | 15 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350450103 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Empire’s Other Histories |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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