Holly Cooper

Small Group Project 2024-25

Society for Black British Historians

A Society of Black British historians, run for and by us, is a learned society for scholars of Black British and/or Black diasporic heritage, with the aim of improving retention and admission of students from these marginalised backgrounds. Adopting a similar framework to the organisation, Museum Detox, the Society will provide an autonomous space for intellectual nourishment, networking, peer to peer support and institutional crisis management for Black historians in, and of, Britain.

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Areas of interest

History Race Activism UK Empire Migration Community History

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FG10

Biography

Holly Cooper is a DPhil Student in History at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and coordinates the interdisciplinary programme, “Race and Resistance" based at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, University of Oxford. They are a historian, researcher, and activist.

Holly is currently researching the twentieth century Black Caribbean community histories of Coventry and Warwickshire. They favour radical Black methodologies in their work, and work to uncover marginalised histories outside of the metropole. They are an experienced researcher, currently working on the Oxford/UCL joint project, “A Portrait of Empire, Migration, and Belonging in English Secondary schools”, funded by the PEARS Foundation. They have also worked with the AHRC, Goldsmiths, University of London, and King’s College London.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25