Building a British Empire: Catholic Constituencies in the North Atlantic, 1780-1830

Thursday, March 10, 1-2 p.m.

Online

Description: Catholics are often overlooked as participants in Britain’s imperial program because of the pervasive culture of anti-Catholicism that they confronted in the home nations of the United Kingdom. Yet, in various locations across the north Atlantic they represented very large or majority populations. This presentation will explore how Scottish and Irish Catholics in places like Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad accessed levels of privilege as Britons that were previously unattainable, and how this enabled them to become active contributors to the process of British colonization.

To Register: https://mun.webex.com/mun/j.php?RGID=rd3de465f9afcf1a70ca81b572510e0cd

Bio: Karly Kehoe is a Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canadian Studies at St. Mary’s University, where she is also Chair of the Gorsebrook Research Centre. Dr. Kehoe is the President of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Currently she is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Memorial.

Presented by Department of History

Event Listing 2022-03-10 13:00:00 2022-03-10 14:00:00 America/St_Johns Building a British Empire: Catholic Constituencies in the North Atlantic, 1780-1830 Description: Catholics are often overlooked as participants in Britain’s imperial program because of the pervasive culture of anti-Catholicism that they confronted in the home nations of the United Kingdom. Yet, in various locations across the north Atlantic they represented very large or majority populations. This presentation will explore how Scottish and Irish Catholics in places like Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Newfoundland, and Trinidad accessed levels of privilege as Britons that were previously unattainable, and how this enabled them to become active contributors to the process of British colonization. To Register: https://mun.webex.com/mun/j.php?RGID=rd3de465f9afcf1a70ca81b572510e0cd Bio: Karly Kehoe is a Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canadian Studies at St. Mary’s University, where she is also Chair of the Gorsebrook Research Centre. Dr. Kehoe is the President of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Currently she is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Memorial. Online Department of History