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Laura Birkinshaw

Postgraduate Researcher

Qualifications

  • BA (University of Hull)
  • PGCert (Bishop Grosseteste University)
  • MA (University of Hull)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Hull)

Summary

Laura is a qualified History teacher and early-career researcher studying disease transmission and inhibition, particularly the utilisation of maritime quarantines, during the transatlantic slave trade and the post-abolition period.

Research interests

Social history of medicine; environmental history; colonial history; the transatlantic slave trade.

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