Troubling the Island Story : The Impact and Legacy of Catherine Hall’s Historical Work in and beyond Britain

This edited collection engages with the work of the eminent historian Catherine Hall and her influence on the development of recent British Historiography. Over her career Hall has had a pivotal impact on a number of historiographical and disciplinary fields including British History, Colonial, Imperial and Postcolonial Studies, Gender History, Geography, Education, and Museum Studies. In analysing and responding to her work this volume makes a critical intervention into these inter-disciplinary fields.

Providing a distinctive intellectual history of Hall''s work and its impact, as well as an accessible route into a range of historiographical and interdisciplinary areas, the essays in this volume bring together leading scholars in the field of critical colonial studies to tackle unanswered questions raised by Hall''s work and expand on them. Exploring themes such as masculinity, history writing, historical geography and histories of the home as well as tracing Hall''s intellectual trajectory and its relationship to shifting historiographical debates, Troubling the Island Story offers a clear and accessible insight into the changing shape of British historiography over the last forty years.