Brycchan Carey, Author and Academic

I am Professor of Literature, Culture, and History in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

I have a wide range of interests centred on history, literature, and culture from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but I work primarily on empire, slavery, and abolition on the one hand, and early modern and eighteenth-century natural history and the environment on the other.

I have written or edited nine books to date, with more on the way. My most recent is The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807, published by Yale University Press in 2024.

I am currently working on The Parish Revolution: a study of clerical naturalists in the age of enlightenment. As part of this, I am organising a conference on Gilbert White of Selborne.

I am the Treasurer of The Association for Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI). I was the first President of The Literary London Society, the 2021-24 President of The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the 2015-19 President of ASLE-UKI. I am also active with my local environmental group, Alnwick Area Friends of the Earth in North Northumberland.

And yes, my name is spelled (or spelt) incorrectly. The proper Welsh spelling is "Brychan". Click here to see why

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My partner Rosie Paice is also an academic and author. Her website has loads of information about English Civil War poetry and the art and poetry of William Blake. Check it out at https://www.rosamundpaice.com/

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Pages on this Website

Resources for slavery, abolition, and emancipation

The Parish Revolution: a history of clerical natural history

Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780) African Man of Letters

Ottobah Cugoano: a former slave speaks out

British Abolitionists: people who worked against slavery

Poems about slavery A growing archive of poems that protested against slavery

Slavery Timeline A Chronology of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation

The Bookshop: books I've written and edited

Public Speaking: invite me to speak at your event or organisation

Places: photos and information about my favourite places.

Etexts: more than 50 etexts available on this site

Read my CV (PDF)

Complete index of this website

Frequently Asked Questions

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