Dr Nicholas Radburn
Senior Lecturer in the History of the Atlantic World 1500 - 1800Profile
I am a historian of the Atlantic World, with a particular focus on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. My 2023 monograph Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade revealed how slave-trading merchants massively expanded the slave trade and powerfully shaped the experiences of millions of enslaved people. I also work on three major digital humanities projects: I am co-editor of the AHRC- and NEH-funded project , a digital memorial to the 12.5 million Africans who were forcibly transported through the slave trade; principal investigator on the AHRC and NEH funded "Towards a Digital Archive of the Atlantic Slave Trades: Unlocking the Records of the South Sea Company; an co-investigator of the AHRC-funded Legacies of British Slave Traders project. I have also developed s that are used in museums and classrooms around the world and have written journal articles on a plethora of topics in Atlantic history.
Current Teaching
I teach “The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1865” (HIST241); "Slavery & Freedom: North America, 1620-1800" (HIST240); and "Paradise Lost: Colonization and the Jamaican Environment, c1655-1838" (HIST361).
PhD Supervision Interests
I would welcome inquiries from students interested broadly in Atlantic World History, but especially the themes of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, plantation slavery, cross-cultural trade, and economic history.
01/02/2022 → 31/07/2025
Research
01/07/2021 → 30/09/2021
Research
01/02/2021 → 31/12/2024
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