Name: From 2026 To 2038: How we harness next year to prepare for the next decade
Start: 2025-12-18T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-18T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation

From 2026 To 2038: How we harness next year to prepare for the next decade

A public lecture by Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman
About this Event

Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (they/them) is an independent inheritance (‘heritage’) consultant and an activist intellectual historian of abolitionist ideas. They explain their name here. Schooled in Oxford (Double First in Greats), Paris (Entente Cordial Scholar) and Michigan (PhD in Philosophy), they began their career in this country in 2013, with research fellowships at Liverpool’s Centre for the Study of International Slavery and Hull’s Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation. They mobilised global movements asking ‘Why Isn’t My Professor Black?’, ‘Why Is My Curriculum White?’, and asserting that ‘Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford’, their scholar-activism, during 2023, has focused on commemorating, with a letter to The Times and a public meeting in Parliament, the bicentenary of the beginning of Britain’s so-called “Anti-Slavery Society”. Now visiting fellow at the University of Birmingham, they are writing, through the lens of ‘The City of Birmingham as Britain’s Abolition Geography’, a new history of the movement for abolition in the British empire.

We are delighted to be partnering once again with Hull Museums to offer attendees at our public lectures the chance to visit Wilberforce House Museum next door before joining us for the event.

Lectures will begin at 4 pm and will take place at our home in Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE. We are very grateful to Hull Museums for their generous support of the Wilberforce Institute’s public lecture programme, and we hope many of you will take the opportunity to explore their fascinating exhibitions beforehand.

Refreshments will be available from 3:45 pm, and we warmly invite you to stay afterwards for a glass of wine and the chance to chat with our speaker.

A limited number of in-person tickets are available. If you are unable to join us in Hull, you can still enjoy the lecture online – please select the appropriate ticket type when booking.