Dr Elizabeth M. Williams

Academic qualifications

PhD, Birkbeck College, London, 'We Shall Not Be Free Until South Africa is Free! The Anti-Apartheid Activity of Black Britons.' (2009)
MA in Area Studies (Africa) SOAS, LSE , London (1994)
BA (Hons) in History, English, American Studies, Leicester (1993)

Teaching

Second and third year
HT52083A/HT53083A Of Revelation & Revolution: A Social & Political History of 20th century South Africa

Research interests

19th & 20thc Anglo-South African history; The Black Diaspora & transnational history; The Black presence in Britain; The Commonwealth; British Colonialism/Imperialism on Africa; International Relations of Africa. Oral histories Lewisham 77', Black British parliamentarians, Black radicals in Britain, Post-1994 South Africa, the Black Middle Classes in Britain and South Africa, Oral histories of the 'Windrush' generation in Britain.

Selected publications

Forthcoming Publications 2012/13

Monograph

• The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa: Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle (IB Tauris 2013)

Journal article

• ‘Anti-Apartheid: The Black British Response.’ in South African Historica Journal: Special Edition (2012)

Book chapter

• ‘Black British Solidarity with the Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The West Indian Standing Conference & Black Action for the Liberation of Southern Africa’ in H. Sapire and C. Saunders (eds), The Struggle for Southern Africa: New Local and Global Perspectives (University of Cape Town Press, 2012)

Book

• ‘Memories: Black British Voices on Apartheid’, Co-editors: E. Williams/ Dr. Chitiyo (2013)

Papers Presented

• Public Lecture: Black History Month, ‘Black and Asian Solidarity with the Southern African Liberation Struggle,’ Battersea, London Borough of Wandsworth, UK October 2011.
• Paper: ‘Black Christians and Anti-Apartheid Activity.’ Christianity History Forum Annual Conference. Offchurch, Leamington Spa, UK. April 2011.
• Guest Convenor of the Southern Africa: History, Culture and Society Seminar Series (Birkbeck/SOAS University of London). Seminar ‘South Africa and Black British Anti-Apartheid solidarity with the Southern Africa Liberation Struggle 1970-90.’ Paper: ‘Race in Britain and the South African struggle.’ Goldsmiths, University of London November 2010.
• Paper: ‘Black Britain and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle during the 1980s’ Institute of Historical Research, University of London November 2009.

Recent Book Reviews

• ‘Ralph Bunche’ on R.A. Hill and E J. Keller (eds), Trustee For The Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa (Ohio University Press, Athens Ohio, 2010) in Journal of Southern African Studies 2012
• ‘British West-Indians’ on A.Spry Rush, Bonds of Empire-West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2011) in Reviews in History (Online)
• ‘Some Things Change, Some Things Stay the Same’ on S. Chan, Southern Africa Old Treacheries and New Deceits (Yale University Press, 2011) in African Studies Quarterly 2012
•  ‘Pan-African Pioneers: Henry Sylvester Williams-First Black Barrister in the Cape’ on M. Sherwood, Origins of Pan-Africanism-Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa and the African Diaspora (Routledge, 2011) in Journal of Southern African Studies Vol 37, 3, September 2011