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Research interests
Professor Chris Evans is the author of Slave Wales: The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery 1660-1850. His interests include abolitionism in the British world in the nineteenth century; the links between European industry and the Atlantic slave trade; eighteenth-century whaling; and Swansea copper as an agency of global change in the nineteenth century.
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, Work and authority in an iron town: Merthyr Tydfil, 1760-c.1815, University of London
Award Date: 1 Jul 1988
History, BA, University College London
Award Date: 1 Jul 1983
Keywords
- D204 Modern History
- History from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
- E11 America (General)
- Environmental and social frontiers
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Swansea Copper: A Global History
Evans, C. & Miskell, L., 11 Jan 2021, Johns Hopkins University Press.Research output: Other contribution
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‘Voyage iron’: an Atlantic slave trade currency, its European origins, and West African impact
Evans, C. & Rydén, G., May 2018, In: Past & Present. 239, 1, p. 41-70Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Plantation Hoe: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic commodity, 1650-1850
Evans, C., 1 Jan 2012, (E-pub ahead of print) In: William and Mary Quarterly. 69, 1, p. 581 - 610 29 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Slave Wales: the Welsh and Atlantic slavery 1660-1850
Evans, C., 30 Sept 2010, Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 160 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Cardinal Newman: pro-slavery views of prominent 19th-century cleric raise questions about his educational legacy
Evans, C., 13 Oct 2023, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Open Access
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Knowledge, Energy, and Industry in the Age of Revolution
Chris Evans (Speaker)
24 Nov 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Nineteenth-Century Dress and Textiles Reframed Network
Chris Evans (Speaker)
29 Oct 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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The Slave Trade in the Spanish and British Atlantic Empires, 1500-1830
Chris Evans (Speaker)
2 Jun 2023 → 3 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Wales and Atlantic Slavery
Chris Evans (Speaker)
1 Dec 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Forgotten Histories: Latin America, The Last Frontier of British Slaveholding
Chris Evans (Speaker)
19 May 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press/Media
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A small sliver of blue cloth - unravelling the textiles of enslavement
6/04/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Slavery and Wales: The mansions and wealth that reveal how the nation was linked to the slave trade
21/06/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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De strijd is geopend: Britten willen nu echt af van hun koloniale standbeelden
9/06/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Prizes
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Douglass Adair Memorial Award
Evans, Chris (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Abbot Payson Usher Prize
Evans, Chris (Recipient) & Withey, Alun (Recipient), 1 Dec 2014
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship
Evans, Chris (Recipient), 1 Mar 2016
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively