Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray

Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray received a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham and is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the recovery of African American oratorical, literary and visual testimony in Britain during the nineteenth century.

Her first book, Advocates of Freedom: African American Transatlantic Abolitionism in the British Isles was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press, and her second, Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland 1845-1895, co-authored with Professor John R. McKivigan, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. Her accompanying website, 'Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland' attempts to map as many Black activist speaking locations across Britain and Ireland.

Hannah-Rose has organised numerous community events including talks, primary and secondary school workshops, heritage plaques, performances, podcasts, plays, exhibitions and walking tours on both sides of the Atlantic.