The Centre for Imperial and Global History is delighted to report that Dr Ryan Hanley has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize. Here’s what he will be working on:

The Philip Leverhulme Prize will enable me to lay the foundations for a new global history of British antislavery since the late eighteenth century. This long-term project will explore how Britain’s antislavery interventions around the world and throughout modern history resulted in partial victories, unexpected consequences and sometime perverse compromises. It promises to contribute to how we understand metropolitan activism, humanitarian imperialism, the history of international relations, and contemporary anti-trafficking politics, across a very long timeline. This project will result in a major new monograph, Unfinished Business: An Incomplete History of British Antislavery, under contract with Oxford University Press and slated for publication in 2032, in time for the bicentenary of passing of the Abolition of Slavery Act in 1833.

You can read more about the scheme and other winners here.