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Dr Ruth Watson. University Associate Professor in African History. Fellow, Clare College.

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. World History. Research theme. Cambridge has long been an international centre for research and study in World History. Our research interests, spanning five centuries, stretch from

Ruth Watson (Cambridge),. Jun. 6. Interconnected Island Worlds: Iberians’ Encounters with the Austral Lands, 1511-1711.

My dissertation examining political women’s dress during the French Revolution was also awarded a Petrie Watson Exhibition Prize.

Page credits & information. Ruth Watson is an Associate Professor in African History.

Supervisor: Dr Ruth Watson. Research interests: labour history and strike actions in twentieth-century Africa, gender and women’s histories in Africa, twentieth century African urban history, histories of migration and

British Academy grants went to Dr Ruth Watson for ‘Crowds in World History’ and Professor Teresa Webber for ‘Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues’.

Genealogy, slavery and the digital archive. Image. Andrew Watson (1856-1921), the world’s first black international footballer. ... However, that’s what happened to me in 2002, when a documentary aired, on the world’s first black international

His father, James Watson, was the Chamberlain for Lord Dundas – the Earl of Orkney. ... Peter Miller Watson’s heirs included his son, Andrew Watson, and his daughter, Annetta.

Watson, the world’s first Black International footballer. ... Poet, activist and scholar Malik Al Nasir (formerly Mark Watson) is an ancestral cousin of the 19th–century sportsman.