Katie Donington

Katie Donington is a Senior Lecturer in Black, Caribbean, and African History at the Open University. She researches the history and legacies of British Caribbean transatlantic slavery. She is also interested in the representation of slavery in public history.

She has a PhD in History (UCL), MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies (University of Leeds) and BA in English Literature and History (University of Leeds). Between 2009-2015 her doctoral and post-doctoral research was with the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project (UCL) with a focus on slave-ownership in Britain and Jamaica.

Her publications include (co-authored with Catherine Hall, Nick Draper, Keith McClelland and Rachel Lang) Legacies of British Slave-ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2014); (coedited with Ryan J. Hanley and Jessica Moody) Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery: The Local Nuances of a "National Sin" (Liverpool University Press, 2016); The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World (Manchester University Press, 2019).

She has worked with a variety of local and national museums, art galleries and heritage organisations as a curator and an advisor. In 2018 she co-curated 'Slavery, Culture and Collecting' at the Museum of London Docklands. She served as an advisor on the National Trust project 'Colonial Countryside' between 2018-21. She is regularly invited to offer expert opinion to the press and has contributed to radio and television programmes on the topic of slavery.

Her research and public engagement have been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Arts Council England, and the British Academy.