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Prof

Zoe Laidlaw

Professor In History
Historical and Philosophical Studies
British Empire
history
arts & humanities
science & technology
humans
commerce
christianity
language use
corpus linguistics
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Zoe Laidlaw

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Nineteenth Century
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Projects

Displaying the 2 most recent projects by Zoe Laidlaw.

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Western Australian Legacies of British Slavery

2020 - 2022
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Remaking the British world after 1815

2018 - 2022
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Projects

Project Types

2

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Zoe Laidlaw.

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Inquiring into the Corpus of Empire

Stephen Doherty, Lisa Ford, Kirsten Mckenzie, Naomi Parkinson, David Roberts, Paul Halliday, Zoe Laidlaw, Alan Lester, Philip Stern

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY

This article tests the value of corpus linguistics in analyzing nineteenth-century commissions of inquiry into British colonies. I..

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Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875

Zoe Laidlaw

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES

A book review on: Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875

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Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890

Zoe Laidlaw

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Historical Studies

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"The British Government Is Now Awaking": How Humanitarian Quakers Repackaged and Circulated the 1837 Select Committee Report on Aborigines

Penelope Edmonds, Zoe Laidlaw

Book Chapter  |  2019

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Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture

Zoe Laidlaw

Journal article  |  2016  |  AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

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Indigenous Communities and Settler Colonialism Land Holding, Loss and Survival in an Interconnected World

Zoë Laidlaw, Alan Lester

Book  |  2015

This book shows that Indigenous communities tenaciously held land in the midst of dispossession, whilst becoming interconnected th..

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Imperial complicity: Indigenous dispossession in British history and history writing

Z Laidlaw

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Indigenous Sites and Mobilities: Connected Struggles in the Long Nineteenth Century

Alan Lester, Zoe Laidlaw

Book Chapter  |  2015

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Indigenous interlocutors: Networks of imperial protest and humanitarianism in the mid-nineteenth century

Z Laidlaw

Book Chapter  |  2014

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Colonial connections, 1815-45: Patronage, the information revolution and colonial government

Z Laidlaw

Book  |  2013

This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. A..

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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge
Historical Studies
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage and Culture
Other History, Heritage and Archaeology

Honours, Awards and Fellowships

1997

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
2015

FRHIST - Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK)

2006

FRRAS - Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor In History

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Fellow

Australian Historical Association

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Oxford

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)/Bachelor of Science (Honours)

University of Melbourne

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