Dr Nicholas Evans

Dr Nicholas Evans

Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History & Deputy Director of the Wilberforce Institute

+44 (0)1482 465392 | N.J.Evans@hull.ac.uk

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Humanities

Related groups

  • History

Summary

Dr Nick Evans is Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History and Deputy Director of the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull. His research focusses on voluntary and forced migration around the Atlantic between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.

A founding member of the Wilberforce House Museum Advisory Board, he champions work to decolonise heritage and amplify the experiences of Global Majority people living in contemporary Britain. In 2023, he was part of teams that won both the Museums Association’s Decolonising Museums Award and the PraxisAuril KE Award 2023 for supporting Equality Diversity and Inclusion through Knowledge Exchange. Since 2023 he has served on the National Centre for Teaching Black History Educator's Steering Group at the International Slavery Museum.

For more information visit: https://www.hull.ac.uk/research/institutes/wilberforce/homelands .

I presently teach on a number of undergraduate modules:

* A History of Freedom (Level 4)

* Global Britain and its Past (Level 5)

* Insiders and Outsiders (Level 6)

* Memory, Public History and Heritage (Level 7)

In addition I founded and direct the Hull History Network

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Imposing Identity: Death Markers to 'English' People in Barbados, 1627-1838

Evans, N. J. (2020). Imposing Identity: Death Markers to ‘English’ People in Barbados, 1627-1838. In N. Evans, & A. McCarthy (Eds.), Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones (52-80). Edinburgh University Press

Conclusion

McCarthy, A., & Evans, N. J. (2020). Conclusion. In N. J. Evans, & A. McCarthy (Eds.), Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones (201-205). Edinburgh University Press

Introduction - Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones

Evans, N. J., & McCarthy, A. (2020). Introduction - Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones. In N. Evans, & A. McCarthy (Eds.), Death in the Diaspora: British and Irish Gravestones (1-13). Edinburgh University Press

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain

Evans, N. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffmann, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain (224 - 234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959-26

'New' Jews in Scotland since 1945

Evans, N. J., & McCarthy, A. (2018). ‘New’ Jews in Scotland since 1945. In T. M. Devine, & A. McCarthy (Eds.), New Scots: Scotland’s Immigrant Communities since 1945 (50-74). Edinburgh University Press

Research interests

Decolonising Heritage

Migration to, through and from Britain

Jewish history

Diasporas in the Atlantic world

Slavery

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Taking The Knee

Funder

HCC Hull City Council

Grant

£3,000.00

Started

1 February 2023

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Community participation for the civic university: Mariupol State University, University of Hull and community partnership

Funder

British Council

Grant

£6,473.00

Started

1 March 2025

Status

Ongoing

Project

Decolonising UK Earth Science pedagogy - from the hidden histories of our geological institutions to inclusive curricula

Funder

AHRC Arts & Humanities Research Council

Grant

£87,300.00

Started

4 January 2022

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

I presently supervise the following PhD students:

* Laura Birkinshaw, 'The rose of water in disease transmission and inhibition in the transatlantic slave trade' (funded by Leverhulme Trust)

* Lewis Carter, 'Disconnected communities and their perception of heritage-led regeneration in marginal post-industrial port cities - Hull, Hartlepool and Great Yarmouth' (funded by the ESRC)

* Ryan Clarke, 'Memorialising Pandemics' (funded by the University of Hull)

Previous PhD students who I have supervised are:

* James Baker, 'Home Children 1920s to 1960s: a study of the exploitation of British children subject to forced emigration' (funded by the University of Hull)

* Lauren Darwin, 'Convict transportation in the age of Abolition, 1787-1807 ' (funded by the University of Hull)

* Frank Grombir, 'Second-generation Polish and Ukrainian identities in the North of England after 1945' (funded by the University of Hull)

* Ryan Hanley, 'Social and commercial influences on early black writing in Britain, 1770-1830' (funded by the University of Hull)

* Samuel North, 'Reclaiming the Islamic legacies of anti-slavery in the post-Apartheid Cape, South Africa' (funded by the AHRC)

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