Zoë Laidlaw

Zoë Laidlaw is a historian of the nineteenth-century British Empire, with a particular interest in the connections between slavery and settler colonialism. Her latest book is Protecting the Empire’s Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). A non-Indigenous Australian, Zoë grew up in western Victoria and is a Professor of History at the University of Melbourne.