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About Charles Prior
I grew up on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee lands near Kingston, Ontario Canada, and was educated and taught at Queen's University (Canada), the University of Toronto, and the University of Cambridge, where I held a postdoctoral fellowship from 2004 to 2006. I am a life member of Wolfson College, Cambridge and held visiting appointments in Canada, the United States and in the UK. My work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust. With my colleague Joy Porter, I lead Treatied Spaces, a research group which has secured over £2 million in competitive funding. I have published two books, edited collections, and a number of articles that deal with topics in early modern political thought. My most recent publication, which was supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, is 'Settlers in Indian Country' (Cambridge, 2020). It foregrounds Native conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. I am also completing a new book project, Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty in the American Northeast, that re-examines colonialism and sovereignty in early America.Charles Prior is Head of the School of Humanities & Reader in History at the University of Hull, where he co-leads the Treatied Spaces Research Group. His latest publication is Settlers in Indian Country.
NBN Episodes hosted by Charles:
December 31, 2023
How the Old World Ended
Jonathan Scott is one of the most original interpreters of the early modern world. How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution, 1500-…
December 30, 2023
The Common Freedom of the People
As historical topics, political revolutions come in and out of fashion. At the moment the American Revolution as an ideological struggle engages the p…
March 23, 2022
Between Empire and Republic
We don’t think of Canada as a republic. Even in its modern and vibrantly multi-cultural form, there is something monarchical about the place. The Quee…
November 10, 2021
A Useful History of Britain
What have the Romans ever done for us? That’s the question put to his pals by Reg, in a much quoted scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The debat…
September 21, 2021
Sensitive Negotiations
Diplomatic relationships between Indigenous sovereigns and colonial and settler governments were defined by language. In some cases, cultural divides …
March 16, 2021
Perfecting the Union
On the face of things, the Constitution is concerned with individual and collective rights - to free speech, assembly, religion and that part about gu…
December 28, 2020
Occupied America
When we read the Declaration of Independence, what tends to jump off the page are the lofty propositions concerning natural rights. Yet over a third o…
December 7, 2020
Imperial Culture and the Sudan
In The Empty House, Sherlock Holmes makes a dramatic reappearance in the surgery of his friend Dr Watson. Presumed dead at the bottom of the Reichenba…
December 3, 2020
American States of Nature
In Federalist no. 2, John Jay considered the ‘wide spreading country’ of the American republic. It was, he argued, as if the land itself was fashioned…
October 28, 2020
The Formation of the Colonial State in India
When he appeared before the British House of Commons in the wake of the Stamp Act crisis, Benjamin Franklin reminded his audience that the American co…
September 29, 2020
Atlantic Wars
For the people of the Dawnland, they were floating islands. The sails resembled clouds, and the men gathered on deck looked like bears. When Europeans…
July 22, 2020
A Concise History of History
‘THOSE THAT DENY THEIR HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT!’ So Tweeted the 45th President of the United States to his 80 million followers in June, as Am…
February 6, 2020
A Biography of a Map in Motion
Labels on a map: Surrey. Lower Norfolk. The Isle of Wight. Northumberland. Middlesex. Not a map England, but of the British colonies of Virginia and M…
January 22, 2020
The Making of an Imperial Polity
In his Relation of the second voyage to Guiana, published in 1596, George Chapman put the imperial ambitions of England into a telling verse couplet. …
December 23, 2019
The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III
In his notes for a speech to be delivered in the House of Commons in the wake of American Independence, the MP and imperial reformer Edmund Burke obse…
October 8, 2019
Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth
Early American colonialism is often distinguished by an urban and rural divide. Urban development was a sign of imperial progress. British writers fre…
July 22, 2019
No Useless Mouth
When the British explored the Atlantic coast of America in the 1580s, their relations with indigenous peoples were structured by food. The newcomers, …
July 15, 2019
Subjects and Sovereign
There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy. In the United Kingdom, the royal family commands the headlines, but paradoxicall…
June 20, 2019
Loyalty, Memory and Public Opinion in England, 1658-1727
People value loyalty. We prize it in our dogs. We loyally carry loyalty cards to claim discounts at our favourite stores and coffee shops. We follow s…
June 4, 2019
The Savage and Modern Self
As they explored and struggled to establish settlements in what they called ‘new found lands’, the encounter with the peoples of those lands deeply af…
May 29, 2019
Beyond Slavery and Abolition
To our eyes, eighteenth-century Britain can look like a world of opposites. On one hand everything was new: political parties and a ‘prime’ minister e…
May 16, 2019
The New Map of Empire
When we think of the history of the British Empire we tend to think big: oceans were crossed; colonies grew from small settlements to territories many…