16 Facts About Catherine Hall

Catherine Hall 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 Slavery.

Catherine Hall's father, John Barrett, was a Baptist minister, while her mother, Gladys, came from a family of millers.

Catherine Hall's parents met at Oxford University, where Gladys was studying history.

When Catherine was three years old, the family moved to Leeds, Yorkshire, and she grew up there in a non-conformist household; both parents were "radical Labour".

Catherine Hall then attended the University of Sussex at Falmer, but was living between Brighton and London, having met her future husband, Stuart Hall, who lived in London.

Catherine Hall found herself out of place among the "stylish, metropolitan types" and bewildered by the emphasis on the multidisciplinary syllabus at Sussex.

Catherine Hall moved to the University of Birmingham, where Stuart had moved to set up the Centre for Cultural Studies, and she completed a traditional history degree, developing an interest in medieval history.

Catherine Hall was involved in student politics and activism in Birmingham around 1968, but then had a baby, which changed her life.

Catherine Hall got involved in the women's movement, became a feminist historian, and co-wrote Family Fortunes with Leonore Davidoff in 1987.

In 1970, Catherine Hall attended the UK's first National Women's Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford.

Catherine Hall was a member of the Feminist Review collective between 1981 and 1997.

Catherine Hall is a feminist historian, known for her work on gender, class, race and empire between 1700 and 1900.

Catherine Hall was employed as a "gender historian" at the Northeast London Polytechnic in the late 1980s, which involved looking at history from a feminist perspective, creating a new discipline subsequently known as feminist history.

Catherine Hall retired from her professorship on 31 July 2016.

Catherine Hall met her future husband, cultural theorist and activist Stuart Catherine Hall, on a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament march in the early 1960s, and the two would go on to marry in 1964.

In May 2016, Catherine Hall donated 3,000 books from his library to Housmans bookshop.