Catherine Hall

Catherine Hall (born 1946 in Kettering, Northamptonshire) is a feminist historian from the UK, and currently Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at UCL.

Her work explores the interrelation between metropole and colony in an attempt to rewrite the narrative of certain aspects of 'British history' in the mid nineteenth century empire period. In this we might see a postcolonial trend in contemporary British historical writing, with other established British historians such as David Cannadine and Linda Colley and new writers, including scholars from African and African-American or African-British backgrounds, also turning their attention to the complex mid-nineteenth century period of Britain's empire and its wider overseas influence as developed through trade agreements.

She is married to Professor Stuart Hall.

Bibliography

*"Civilising Subjects: Metropole And Colony In The English Imagination, 1830-1867" (2002)
*"Cultures Of Empire: Colonisers In Britain And The Empire In Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries" (2000, editor)
*"Defining The Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender And The British Reform Act Of 1867" (2000, editor, with Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall)
*"Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850" (1987, new ed. 2002, with Leonore Davidoff)
*"Gendered Nations: Nationalisms And Gender Order In The Long Nineteenth Century" (2000 editor, with Ida Blom and Karen Hagemann)
*"White, Male And Middle-Class: Explorations In Feminism And History" (1992)

External links

* [http://ucl.ac.uk/history/2007/people07/hall.htm UCL staff page]