The social history of England, c.1500-1800, especially popular politics, rebellion, popular memory, custom, neighbourhood, community, local society, social relations; folklore, landscape and popular culture 1500-1970
Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history
Hassoum Ceesay's research interests are African colonial and post-colonial history, especially through biographies of women and political leaders, chiefs in British colonial rule, and heritage conservation and interpretation, to bring to the centre those assigned to the margins of Gambian history.
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