Publications & Papers
Publications
‘What was Scotland’s role in the British Empire? Let’s understand it’, The National (February 2025)
‘Colonial connections in Britain’s built heritage’, SWW DTP Blog (December 2023)
‘The Mau Mau Detention Camps: Rehabilitation, Propaganda and Memory’ - Imperial and Global Forum, Centre for Imperial and Global History, University of Exeter. (November 2018)
Britain’s Mau Mau Detention Camps - Scottish Centre for Global History (July 2020)
‘‘‘Death Knows No Colour’: The Forgotten African Soldiers of WWII’ - Scottish Centre for Global History (November 2020)
‘Mau Mau and May: Britain’s ‘forgetfulness on empire atrocities’ - The National (January 2019)
‘Nostalgia for Empire’ - Africa Is A Country, (July 2019)
‘How the UK Government wrote WWII's British African soldiers out of history’ - The National (November 2019)
‘Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi must have his place in history’ - The National (April 2020)
Mekatilili Wa Menza And The Giriama War’ - History Matters, University of Sheffield (March 2021)
‘‘If we are going to sin, we must sin quietly’: The legacies of the Mau Mau rebellion’ - The History Lab, The Institute of Historical Research (July 2021)
Papers
Conferences
Panels
Upcoming: European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2025, Prague - HIS14 'Identity and Belonging in African Colonial Counterinsurgencies. Friday 27th June. Full-day session. Co-Convener - Thomas J. Wright
Papers
Visualising Violence in the Colonial Archive: The Kenya Emergency (1952-1960), SHoW Legacies of War and Violence Conference, University of Cyprus Library, November 2024.
Mau Mau and the Postcolonial British State – Memories and Representations of Counterinsurgency in Contemporary Britain, Mau Mau: Transitions and Contours of the Postcolonial state, University of Nairobi, October 2024.
‘Violence and Visuality: Images of British colonial violence in the Colonial Office photographic collections’, Transnational and Global History Seminar Conference, University of Oxford, June 2024.
‘Brave, armed and watchful’: The settler under siege in the Kenya Emergency, South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWW DTP) Summer Research Festival, June 2024.
Seminars
‘A pornography of terror’: Images of violence during the Kenya Emergency (1952-1960), Ex-Historia Research Group, University of Exeter, March 2024.
‘Visualising Violence and Memories of Mau Mau: The Kenyan Emergency and Representations of the British Empire, 1952-2020’, Centre for Imperial and Global History (CIGH), University of Exeter, March 2023.
‘If we are going to sin, we must sin quietly’: The legacies of the Mau Mau rebellion’, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, (June 2021).
