Welcome to the blog for the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull. Well known for our work on historical and contemporary slavery, we are also developing our research interests in the area of children’s exploitation. We hope to use this virtual platform to share with you our ideas, our activities, and our outputs as they develop. If you would like to know more, please contact Dr Judith Spicksley on Judith.Spicksley@hull.ac.uk, or subscribe below.
You will find details of what’s coming up shortly on the ‘Events’ tab above, and a list of all our events for this academic year on the ‘Lecture Programme’ tab.
Latest from the Blog
‘Forced to Flee: Stories from Hull Refugees’ Exhibition’; Monday 20 June to Sunday 17th July
For Refugee Week at Hull PhD student Isabel Arce Zelada reflects on her own experience in the waiting areas of Migrationsverket in Sweden where she, her mother, and her grandmother had to sit and wait.(…)
The Windrush Generation: Lord Kitchener, Multiculturalism & the Windrush Scandal
Dr Cassandra Gooptar’s research focuses on stories of the enslaved and exploring the links between British organisations and historical slavery. In advance of Windrush Day 2022 she talks about what the anniversary evokes for her. (…)
Counting The Cost of Child Exploitation
Written by MA student Sophie Blanchard, in the Department of Criminology, this blog takes a look at the recent Office for National Statistics (ONS) publication of statistics for child victims of modern slavery in the UK. (…)
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