Development and Empire, 1929-1962

This two-day conference, held at the Humanities Research Centre, will bring together scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to share knowledge and ideas about British aid-assisted colonial development in the mid-twentieth-century. Today this is a vibrant research area.

Over two days a series of panels will focus on emerging themes and topics such as health and development, regional experiences and metropolitan perspectives. Papers presented by established scholars and early career researchers will consider the meanings of aid-assisted development, its many practices and its multiple short- and long-term effects. Besides academic papers, the conference will include workshops on archival sources in the UK on colonial development and a round-table on the implications of the papers presented for development policy today.

The conference is supported by the Department of History and is organised by its British Empire research cluster. Additional financial support has been provided by the Economic History Society, the Wellcome Trust, the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York and the British Society of the History of Science.

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