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University of York historian awarded OBE

Posted on 2 January 2008

A former member of the University of York’s Department of History, Professor Jim Walvin, was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List.

Professor Walvin, who retired three years ago, was honoured for ‘services to scholarship’. He is an expert on the history of slavery and played a leading role in events last year to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the slave trade in the British colonies.

He was one of the principal speakers in a three-day international conference, staged by the University last April, focusing on the continuing legacy of Abolition. As a precursor, Professor Walvin also gave a Historical Association Lecture on Why did the British abolish the slave trade?

He was also curator of two exhibitions on Abolition — in the Palace of Westminster and in Birmingham — and he is co-editor of the journal Slavery and Abolition.

Professor Walvin has also written an authoritative history of football The Only Game — Football In Our Times.

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