Elisabeth Grass

Elisabeth is a DPhil student in the History Faculty. Through the prism of the country estate, her research focuses on the socio-cultural activities of West Indian slaveholders in Britain in the eighteenth century.  It offers perspectives on wealth derived from enslaved labour and its legacy in our built environment. Elisabeth works closely with the Colonial Countryside initiative and has given presentations and training to staff and volunteers in the heritage sector. A rare book specialist by profession, she is particularly interested in the colonial dimensions of collecting, and in the country house library as a repository of imperial knowledge.

 

 

Elisabeth was a member of the Nice Cup of Tea project, which is now a permanent online exhibition at the Museum of Oxford. She wrote about the project for the History Workshop Online Radical Objects series: https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/radical-object-a-nice-cup-of-tea-everyday-ceramics-as-sites-of-empire/.