Goldsmiths - University of London

Emeritus Professor David Killingray

Academic qualifications

BSc(Econ) London School of Economics, 1962
PGCE University of York, 1967
PhD School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1982

Professional activities

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society FRHS
• Council member of the African Studies Association of the UK
• Publications Committee member of the Kent Archaeological Society
• Council member of the Royal African Society
• President of the Sevenoaks Historical Society
• Committee member of The Study Group on Christianity and History

Research interests

Biographical study of Dr Harold Moody, The League of Coloured Peoples, and Black British political activity 1900-50; Africa and the First World War; The Colonial Army in the Gold Coast 1860-1960; Sevenoaks in the long nineteenth century c.1790-1914; The influenza pandemic of 1918-19.

Selected publications

• Africans in Britain. Editor. (Frank Cass, London, 1994).
  
• 'The Rod of Empire: The debate over corporal punishment in the British African colonial forces, 1888-1946', Journal of African History, 35, 1994, pp.201-35.
  
• 'Rights, Riot and Ritual: The Knole Park access dispute, Sevenoaks, 1883-1885', Rural History, 5, 1, 1994, pp.63-79.
  
• 'The Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 in the British Caribbean', Social History of Medicine, 7, 1, 1994, pp.59-87.
  
• 'Africans and African Americans in Enemy Hands', in K. Fedorowich & M. Thomas, eds., Prisoners of War and Their Captors in World War II, (Berg, Oxford, 1996).
  
• '"If I fight for them, maybe then I can go back to the village": African soldiers in the Mediterranean and European Campaigns, 1939-45', in Paul Addison & Angus Calder, eds., Time to Kill. The soldier's experience of war in the West, (Picador, London, 1996).
  
• 'Securing the British Empire. Policing and colonial order,1920-1960', in M. Mazower, ed., The Policing of Politics: Historical Perspectives (Berghahn< Oxford, 1997).
  
• 'Beneath the Wilberforce Oak, 1873', International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 21, 3, 1997, pp.11-15.
  
• 'Africa and the First World War', in Hew Strachan, ed., Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Oxford UP, 1999).
  
• 'Africa after emancipation since 1957', in R. Overy, ed., The Times History of the World (Times Books, 1999).
  
• The West Indies. British Documents on the End of Empire (with S. R. Ashton), (HMSO, 1999).
  
• 'Introduction Guarding modern empires', and 'Gender issues and colonial armies in Africa' in Guardians of Empire, (Editor with David Omissi), (Manchester U. P., 1999).
  
• A Stroke of Unbelievable Luck: Isaac Fadoyebo's wartime adventures in Burma. Editor and introduction, (Wisconsin University, 1999).
  
• 'LoBagola and the making of "An African Savages's Own Story", in Bernth Lindfors, ed., Africans On Stage (Indiana University Press, 1999)
  
• 'Imagined martial communities: recruiting for the military and police in Colonial Ghana, 1860-1960', in C. Lentz & P. Nugent, eds., Ethnicity in Ghana: the limits of invention (Macmillan, London, 1999).
  
• 'Imperial Defence', in Oxford History of the British Empire. Vol. 5, ed. Robin Winks, (Oxford UP, 1999).
  
• 'The use of terror during the wars of colonial conquest, 1880-1940', in the Encyclopaedia of Terrorism, ed. S. Hart. (Brown Partworks, 1999).
  
• 'Punishment to fit the crime? Penal policy and practice in British Colonial Africa', in F. Bernault, ed., Pour une histoire de l'enfermement et de l'incarceration en Afrique XIXe-XXe sicles, (Karthala, Paris, 1999).
  
• Contribution to The Times Atlas of 20th Century, ed. R. Overy (Times Books,).

Organiser of international conferences and seminars

• 1994 - The African presence in the United Kingdom - Africa Centre, London.
• 1994 - Guardians of Empire - SOAS for The Royal African Society/ASAUK, London.
• 1998 - The Spanish Flu 1918-1998: Reflections on the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 after 80 years, Cape Town SA, Sept. 1998 [with Dr Howard Phillips].
• Joint organiser of the weekly Imperial History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

Seminar and conference papers

• 'The Making of the African landscape', African Studies Association of the UK conference, Lancaster, September, 1994.
  
• 'Archival sources on the African military contribution to the two World Wars', conference on Military Archives and Contemporary Society, Kings College, London, December, 1994.
  
• 'Conservative critic of empire: Harold Moody and The League of Coloured Peoples', paper to Imperial History seminar, Institute of Historical Research, April, 1995.
  
• 'Africa's impact on Britain', lecture to The Royal African Society, SOAS, April, 1995.
  
• 'Imagined martial communities: ethnic recruiting for the police and military in Ghana, 1860-1960', conference on Ethnicity in Ghana, Edinburgh, May, 1995.
  
• 'Sevenoaks in the long nineteenth century', Lecture to Sevenoaks Summer Festival, June, 1995.
  
• 'Conflict and pacification in the 19th and 20th centuries: the African experience', paper to Anglo-American conference, IHR, June, 1995.
  
• 'Securing the British Empire, 1920-1960', paper to conference on Policing the Peace, University College Galway, August, 1995.
  
• 'Imperial Defence', conference on the Oxford History of the British Empire, St. Antony's College, Oxford, September, 1995.
• 'African Soldiers in
  
• Europe, 1939-45', at conference on The Soldier's Experience of War, Edinburgh University, 22-24 September, 1995.
  
• '"A new Imperial Disease": the impact of the influenza pandemic on 1918-19 on the British Empire', History Seminar, Aberdeen University, 25 October, 1995.
  
• 'Church, Community and Controversy in Sevenoaks, Kent, during the long nineteenth century', at the Study Group on Christianity and History conference on Church and Community, Birmingham, 13 April, 1996.
  
• 'Mutiny in African colonial forces in the Second World War', Imperial History seminar, IHR, April, 1996.
  
• 'British Imperial responses to the influenza pandemic of 1918-19', to conference on Medicine and Colonialism, Oxford, 19-21 July, 1996.
  
• 'Harold Moody, The League of Coloured Peoples and African Issues, 1931-47', at bi-annual conference of ASAUK, Bristol, 9-11 September, 1996.
  
• 'Gender issues and African colonial armies', Royal Historical Society conference on Gendering History, York, 27-28 September, 1996. Also to African History seminar, SOAS 5 March 1997.
  
• 'Writing the History of Black People: methods and means', conference on Ethnic Dimensions of Social Research, University of Luton, 25 October, 1996.
  
• 'The prince, the conman and the doctor: writing black biography', History Dept. seminar, University of the West of England, 23 January, 1997.
  
• 'Guarding modern Empires', Imperial History Seminar, IHR, 10 February, 1997.
  
• 'Harold Moody and The League of Coloured Peoples', Dept. of Historical & Cultural Studies seminar, Goldsmiths College, 6 May, 1997.
  
• 'Wartime survival in the forests of Burma: an African account', School of Languages seminar, University of Westminster, 4 June, 1997.
  
• 'Power along the Darent: Mills, people and production since Domesday', lecture to Sevenoaks Annual Festival, 18 June, 1997.
  
• 'Contextualising a 'white' Gospel in nineteenth century Africa', paper to Anglo-American conference, London, 4 July, 1997.
  
• 'Imperial warriors: military power and Empire in Victorian Britain', Royal Society of Arts, London, 24 October, 1997.
  
• 'Black People in Britain since 1500', History Dept seminar, University of Texas at Austin, 7 November, 1997.
  
• 'Federation, decolonization and independence for the British West Indies', British Studies seminar, University of Texas at Austin, 7 November, 1997.
  
• 'The presence of people's of African origin and descent in Britain since 1500', lecture at Washington University, St. Louis, MI, 10 November, 1997.
  
• 'The West Indian Federation: Decolonization in the British Caribbean', Caribbean Studies seminar, ICS, 12 March, 1998.
  
• 'Remembering military service: African oral records of the Second World War', Royal Historical Society conference on Oral History, Memory and the Written Tradition', University of Sussex, 27 March, 1998.
  
• 'The presence of peoples of African origin and descent in Britain, 1500-1950', African Studies Centre seminar, University of Leiden, 24 Sept., 1998.
  
• 'Africa at the end of the century', Tiffany Memorial lecture Wheaton College, IL, 27 Oct., 1998.
  
• 'The presence of peoples of African origin and descent in Britain since 1500', Princeton University, 12 Nov., 1998.
  
• 'West Indian Federation', Imperial History seminar, IHR, London 14 Dec., 1998.
  
• 'Race, Faith and Politics: Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples', inaugural lecture Goldsmiths College, 23 March, 1999.