Richard Drayton

Prof Richard Drayton King's College London Prof Pete Dorey Cardiff University Dr Jonathan Dean University ... Dr Mwenza Blell University of Cambridge Dr Andrzej Zieleniec Keele University Dr Sharon Thompson ... Mary Jennings University of Cambridge Martin King Royal Holloway, University of London

Richard Drayton was born in Guyana and grew up in Barbados. He left the Caribbean as a Barbados Scholar to Harvard University, going then to Yale, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation. He has been a research fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Darby fellow and tutor in modern history at ...

Elkins was in the top-floor study of her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when the call came. She looked at the file boxes .... Richard Drayton of King's College London, another imperial historian, judged it an “extraordinary” book whose implications went beyond Kenya. It set the stage for a rethinking of ...

Joining them were MBA student Yasmin Kumi, President of the Oxford University Africa Society, and Professor Richard Drayton, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King's College London. Professor William Beinart, former Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford African Studies Centre; ...

Sir Christopher Bayly, who has died suddenly aged 69, was the pre-eminent historian of India and the British empire and a pioneer of the field of global history. In 2007 he was the first scholar to be knighted “for services to history outside of Europe”. His adult life was anchored in Cambridge, where he was ...

In February 2014 he gave his last undergraduate lecture on Indian history, after over 40 years of teaching at Cambridge. For the students, it was simply a survey of “The emergence of 'mass politics' in India”: an exploration of classic themes – tensions between local, regional and national politics in the 19th ...

Along with other leading historians, including Professor Richard Drayton of King's College London, Professor Sir Richard Evans of Cambridge University and Professor Margaret MacMillan of Oxford University, Professor Anderson is contemplating a lawsuit to force the FCO into full and more timely ...

Along with other leading historians, including Professor Richard Drayton of King's College London, Professor Sir Richard Evans of Cambridge University and Professor Margaret MacMillan of Oxford University, Professor Anderson is contemplating a lawsuit to force the FCO into full and more timely ...

Such is the level of concern among some historians that a number of leading figures from Oxford, Cambridge and London universities are known to have ... One of the historians considering whether legal action may be needed to secure access is Richard Drayton, Rhodes professor of imperial history at ...

The Foreign Office secretly hoarded 1.2m files. It's historical narcissism. Richard Drayton. Why fear people finding the full truth about the past? No British person alive should feel .... Leaked: Cambridge Analytica's blueprint for Trump victory ... Former Cambridge Analytica exec says she wants lies to stop ...

Anthony Badger, the Cambridge history professor who has been overseeing the declassification of the migrated archive, has written that he believes "it is difficult ... Richard Drayton, Rhodes professor of imperial history at King's College London, said the size of the hidden archive was staggering, and it was ...

As of 11 pm on Monday, November 29th, 204 academics had added their names to the letter of support (see full list below). Follow Varsity's live blog from the occupation for latest information. Dr Priyamvada Gopal, Dean of Churchill College, spoke to Varsity today about the occupation and what she hopes ...