Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History: In Memoriam Eric Richards

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This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards's work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as Scottish and Irish diasporas, religious, labour and wartime migrations. Eric Richards was an international leading historian of British migration history and a pioneer at exploring small- and large-scale migrations. His last public intervention, given in Amiens, France, in September 2018, opens the book. It is preceded by a tribute from David Fitzpatrick and Ngaire Naffine's eulogy. This book brings together renowned scholars of British migration history. The book combines local and global migrations as well as economic and social aspects of nineteenth and twentieth century British migration history.

Marie Ruiz is Associate Professor in British history at the Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France. She is the author of British Female Emigration Societies and the New World (1860-1914).

"This book, with contributions from some of the world's leading migration historians, is testament to the lasting impact of the incomparable Eric Richards. Employing a blend of macro- and micro-history, the approach long advocated by Eric Richards, this important collection ranges across subjects as disparate as the Scottish diaspora, Cypriot emigration, and the Irish in New Zealand." -Philip Payton, Professor of History, Flinders University, Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies, University of Exeter, UK "Features 'a very advanced kind of historical rope-making' from the doyen of migration studies, the late Eric Richards. The volume ties together micro- and macro-contributions in which individuals and great forces entwine, shaped and shaping each other. An engaging exploration of Empire, opportunity, and costs." -Deborah Oxley, Professor of Social Science History, University of Oxford, Fellow of All Souls College