The ‘Valuable Lives’ project will digitise and transcribe registers held at the National Archives to create an open-access and globally reaching database of every person enslaved in the British Empire between 1817 and 1832. Doing so will open up vast new potential for retracing families and reinscribing and memorialising the histories of thousands of communities.
The Centre is currently recruiting Research Assistants to begin constructive tasks toward building the database in January 2024. We are very grateful for this generous grant in support of the ground-breaking Valuable Lives project.
UCL Laws ranked 3rd in the UK in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026
UCL Faculty of Laws has been ranked one of the UK’s top universities for studying law.
06 Oct 2025
Delaney Reviews Wan’s Article in JOTWELL
Professor Erin Delaney reviews Assistant Professor Trevor Wan’s article, ‘Globetrotting Advocates: Foreign Barristers in Hong Kong Courts’, in JOTWELL.
05 Jun 2026
Professor Sue Hamilton’s Book Shortlisted for EAA Book Prize
How did people experience the world in the past? A new book co-edited by Professor Sue Hamilton explores archaeology through the senses and has been shortlisted for the 2026 EAA Book Prize.
05 Jun 2026