Eric Richards, Positionality and Migration History
Résumé
When I invited Eric Richards to speak in Amiens, France, in September 2018, little did I know that one year later I would be writing an introduction to a memorial volume in his honour.
Few historians have been as influential as Eric in British migration history. Between the onset of his career in 1970 and 2018, he published over 140 articles and book chapters, edited at least 10 volumes and completed 12 monographs, which is an impressive total. His canonical groundbreaking Britannia’s Children (2004) has become a bible for historians of the British Empire.