Catherine Hall FBA (born 1946 in Kettering) is a British academic. She is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London and chair of its digital scholarship project, the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership. Her work as a feminist historian focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries, and the themes of gender, class, race and empire. She was elected fellow of British Academy in 2018, and received an honorary degree from University of York in 2019. She rejected the Dan David Prize in 2014, out of support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions-movement. She is the widow of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall.
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1946 (age 79)
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