Professor John Oldfield Professor of Slavery and Emancipation John.Oldfield@hull.ac.uk Faculty and Department Institutes Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation Related groups Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation Biography Outputs Research/PhD Summary John's passion is in producing pioneering research into historic slavery, taking lessons learned from the past so we can imagine a future that is different and tackle the growing issue of modern day slavery. John received the prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2015, in recognition of the institute's world-leading research into slavery and emancipation issues. Research is used to inform public practice and policy, at local, national and international levels. The Wilberforce Institute took a major role in shaping the UK's Modern Slavery Act, which was passed by Parliament in March 2015. Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Southampton (2009-2012) Recent outputs View more outputs Book The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865 Oldfield, J. (2020). The ties that bind : transatlantic abolitionism in the Age of Reform, c. 1820-1865. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Book Chapter Antislavery Opinion Building Oldfield, J. (2020). Antislavery Opinion Building. In K. Bales, & Z. Trodd (Eds.), The Antislavery Usable Past: History’s Lessons for How We End Slavery Today (160-76). Nottingham: University of Nottingham Rights Lab 2007 revisited: commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery Oldfield, J. (2012). 2007 revisited: commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Ambiguous anniversary: the bicentennial of the international slave trade bans (192 - 207). University of South Carolina Press Journal Article Remembering 1807: Lessons from the Archives Oldfield, J., & Wills, M. (2020). Remembering 1807: Lessons from the Archives. History workshop journal : HWJ, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbaa016 From Liverpool to Mount Vernon : Edward Rushton in transatlantic perspective Oldfield, J. R. (2016). From Liverpool to Mount Vernon : Edward Rushton in transatlantic perspective. Questione Romantica, 7(1-2), Project Funder Grant Started Status Project European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities Funder EC European Commission Grant £642,858.00 Started 1 February 2018 Status Ongoing Project The Antislavery Knowledge Network: Community-Led Strategies for Creative and Heritage-Based Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa Funder AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council Grant £130,211.00 Started 1 September 2017 Status Ongoing Project Anti-Slavery Usable Past Funder AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council Grant £234,919.00 Started 1 September 2016 Status Complete Postgraduate supervision Slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world (1750-1850), the American South, American race relations. Completed PhDs Lauren Darwin (Bell), Coerced Migration Systems in Comparative Perspective: An Analysis of the British Slave Trade and Convict Transportation, 1786 - 1813 (2017) Emmanuel Saboro, Slavery, Memory and Orality: A Case Study of Nineteenth-Century Ghana (2015) Current PhD supervisors - Historical Slavery in the Americas - The Abolition of Slavery and the Transition to Freedoms - Memories, Legacies and Representations of Slavery and Abolition - Modern Slavery, Human Rights and Social Justice Similar profiles Piotr Pilarski Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation Andrew Smith Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation Jean Allain Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation