Our Research

Explore world leading research from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities which has contributed to a greater societal understanding of Black history and culture in the UK and globally.

A sample page from the graphic novel, Quaco.

Historical slavery story translated into English for the first time

A graphic novel revealing a new insight into the lives of millions of Africans who fell victim to the slave trade has been brought to English speakers for the first time, thanks to modern languages students at the University of Sheffield.

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Bank of England owned 599 slaves for more than a decade, historian finds

The Bank of England has revealed that it owned 599 slaves in the late 18th century, as a new exhibition on its colonial past opened.

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His House to our Home virtual exhibition

This exhibition invites audiences to imagine a society free from racial oppression through critical and creative engagement with Gothic, Horror and Afrofuturist visual art, film, creative writing and music. Let’s explore how to make this house our home!

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Reparations and Egalitarianism

This paper explores how egalitarians can consistently defend reparations for historical injustices such as slavery and colonialism

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Walking our Stories

A digital map of African Caribbean History in Sheffield

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Implicit Bias and Epistemic Oppression in Confronting Racism

This book draws on Black feminist epistemology to articulate how racist epistemic dynamics might be perpetuated by certain ways of engaging with implicit bias research.

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Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change

“To address climate change fairly, many conflicting claims over natural resources must be balanced against one another.” This book explores the connections between the climate crisis and colonialism.

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History Matters

History Matters is a shared blog from the Department of History. Written by Sheffield historians (staff, students, alumni, and friends), the blog explores cutting-edge research, the history behind the headlines, and why we think history really matters.
At the link below you’ll find a curate list of blog entries related to Black history.

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Frontal image of a caravan in a muddy field, The broken windows are covered with blankets stuck on with ducktape

Calais In and Out of Focus

This 3D virtual exhibition of Elisa Larvego’s photographic works ‘Chemin des dunes’, 'Briançon' and 'Lyon' depicts the lives of the people living and working in the informal migrant camps around Calais, and in different refugee centres. Through this work, Elisa presents a cultural response to the system that creates these regulated spaces where social and human differentiation are accepted as a new order.

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Language, Culture and Mental Health

This article explores the role of the transcultural mental health worker as an alternative to the use of the interpreters in an attempt to identify the communication barriers and improve mental health care for black and minority ethnic patients in Sheffield.

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The influence of language and culture on Improving Access to Psychological Therapy

This Thesis focuses on expanding the knowledge of the additional barriers involving language, culture and faith for Black and minority ethnic population in Sheffield which are preventing them from benefiting from psychological therapy.

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María Remedios del Valle in the Great Latin American Women Project

As part of a wider project to promote gender equality in Latin America, Dr Lauren Rea launched a digital educational platform to promote gender equality amongst school children in Latin America.
This short film (in Spanish) explores the life of an Afro-descendent revolutionary who fought in the Argentine Wars of Independence.

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Sheffield and Slavery

The History of Slavery in Sheffield

A new study of Sheffield’s industrial heritage ‘Sheffield, Slavery, and its Legacies’, records the city’s complex relationship with the Atlantic economy throughout the 17th to 19th century.

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