Dr Henry Dee

Henry Dee is a historian of empire, trade unionism and race. He is currently researching the biography of Clements Kadalie, Southern Africa’s leading black radical in the 1920s and founder of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa (ICU).

For the last two years, he also has been working on UncoverED, a project based at the University of Edinburgh looking into the history of African, Asian and Caribbean students, and the university’s wider entanglement with British imperialism.