Molly Groarke

I am a PhD candidate researching the role of family networks in the nineteenth-century British Empire, with a particular focus on antislavery movements. In my PhD I work with the UK’s National Trust researching the Acland family of Killerton, a landed gentry family who were active in abolitionist, evangelical, and philanthropic political circles. By exploring their links to the British Empire, I seek to imbricate local and global narratives, illustrate the impact of the empire ‘at home’, and provide a decentred analysis of empire that focusses on the personal networks that sustained it. I am supervised by Dr Gareth Atkins (Cambridge) and Dr Barbara Wood (National Trust); my PhD is a collaborative doctoral award funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.