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Dr Nicholas Evans

Dr Nicholas Evans

Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History

+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 Nicholas J Evans is Senior Lecturer in diaspora history at the Department of History. He is also an academic in the Queen's Anniversary Prize-winning Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull.

He uses the fruits of his academic research on voluntary and coerced migration to, through and from Britain to empower religious and ethnic minority communities both at home and abroad.

Aspects of his academic research on migration are on permanent display in museums in Antwerp, Cape Town, Hull, London, and Southampton. He is presently co-investigator of the AHRC 'Remember Me: The Changing Face of Memorialisation in the UK'.

I presently teach on a number of undergraduate modules:

* A History of Freedom (Level 4)

* Global Britain and its Past (Level 5)

* Gandhi to Mandela: The rise and fall of Apartheid in South Africa (Level 6)

* Memory, Meaning and History (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. (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: 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). London: 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. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain

Evans, N. J. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffman, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain: Histories and Historiographies: Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes (224-234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959

A staging post to America - Jewish migration via Scotland

Evans, N. J. (2018). A staging post to America - Jewish migration via Scotland. In K. Collins, A. Newman, & B. Wasserstein (Eds.), Two hundred years of Scottish Jewry (301-326). Glasgow: Scottish Jewish Archives Centre

Research interests

Migration to, through and from Britain

Jewish history

Diasporas

Slavery

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

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

Ongoing

Postgraduate supervision

I presently supervise the following PhD students:

* 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)

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

* Rebecca Nelson, 'Legacies on Display: Antislavery in Museums' (funded by the AHRC)

Previous PhD students who I have supervised are:

* Lauren Darwin, 'Convict transportation in the age of Abolition, 1787-1807 ' (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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