Editorial: New Editors

Abstract

With this issue, seven new editors join the collective of History Workshop Journal, significantly enlarging our expertise. We’re delighted to welcome them: Meleisa Ono-George (Queens College, Oxford) is a social-cultural historian of race and gender, with a focus on Black women’s histories in Britain and the Anglo-Caribbean. She is currently conducting research for a book that focuses on the lives of several Black women in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. She has also begun to develop her next project which looks at the history of Black mothering in Britain and the politics of historical production. Kennetta Hammond Perry is Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, DeMontfort University. Her research interests include Black British history, transnational race politics, Black women’s history, archives of Black Europe, and anti-racist movements for citizenship, recognition and social justice throughout the African Diaspora. She has published widely, including a book-length study on Afro-Caribbean migration to Britain following the Second World War titled London is the Place For Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (Oxford University Press, 2016). Currently, she is researching histories of state-sanctioned racial violence and the relationship between the decline of the welfare state and the expansion of the carceral state in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.