Jane MacRae Campbell
I am a historian of early modern Britain and the British Atlantic world and a Past & Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London. My research focuses on unrealised or partially-realised colonial projects for the New World in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
My work takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the people, spaces and material culture of the New World as envisaged in short-lived colonial projects. I am currently working on a monograph that will examine social, political and cultural change in ‘British’ attitudes towards the New World and colonialism across a range of colonisers, projects, sources and sites, from French Guiana to Newfoundland. A common thread across these projects is the reworking of myth, medieval and ancient history to articulate imagined colonial futures. Recovering such projects from the judgment of history is essential to our understanding of the character and nature of imperialism, early colonial settlement and place-making.
I completed my PhD at the University of York in 2022 with the support of a Scouloudi Fellowship with the IHR and a PhD studentship from the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities. I have an MA Joint Hons in English and Philosophy from the University of St Andrews and an MA History from the University of Exeter (Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Achievement).
Supervisors: Professor David Wootton and Dr Sophie Weeks
Phone: 07889792009
Address: Tavistock, Devon, England, United Kingdom
My work takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the people, spaces and material culture of the New World as envisaged in short-lived colonial projects. I am currently working on a monograph that will examine social, political and cultural change in ‘British’ attitudes towards the New World and colonialism across a range of colonisers, projects, sources and sites, from French Guiana to Newfoundland. A common thread across these projects is the reworking of myth, medieval and ancient history to articulate imagined colonial futures. Recovering such projects from the judgment of history is essential to our understanding of the character and nature of imperialism, early colonial settlement and place-making.
I completed my PhD at the University of York in 2022 with the support of a Scouloudi Fellowship with the IHR and a PhD studentship from the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities. I have an MA Joint Hons in English and Philosophy from the University of St Andrews and an MA History from the University of Exeter (Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Achievement).
Supervisors: Professor David Wootton and Dr Sophie Weeks
Phone: 07889792009
Address: Tavistock, Devon, England, United Kingdom
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Gerbier's reputation as a schemer has recently been revised to reveal a complex Renaissance man, but his transatlantic schemes have been largely unexamined. His Project for Establishing a New State in America (1623; 1649) was written for the Duke of Buckingham who had a secret contract with King Adolphus of Sweden to make Buckingham ‘Master’ of ‘Florida, Jamaica, Havana, and Hispaniola’ and outlines a fully-realised state with a rich material culture ruled by princes and nobles. His 1654 literary utopia echoes this, while a more practical, but still idealistic, plan to settle Guiana in 1658 ended in tragedy. This paper identifies a moment of flux in European perceptions of the southern New World, as a site of the European utopian imagination became intertwined with the lived reality of colonial experiences, capable of destroying dreams and dreamers.
Writing by Jane MacRae Campbell
There is no arguing with the fact that the history of fashion, like the history of utopian thought, has been stained by suffering, exploitation, and even totalitarianism, but despite their deficiencies and faults, both have also fuelled human imagination, encouraged aspiration and innovation, and provided hope for a better sense of self and an improved, more inclusive society. A world without fashion, like a world without utopia, would be a very sad one. Through this special issue we propose a dialogue that embraces the significance of fashion in utopian visions and one that exploits the potential of utopian imagination to inspire better and more sustainable fashion futures. A dialogue that is fuelled by the belief that positive social change is both possible and desirable.
Guest editor: Mila Burcikova
Contributors: Jane MacRae Campbell, Justyna Galant, Annebella Pollen, Andrew Brookes, Kate Fletcher, Robert A. Francis, Emma Dulcie Rigby, Thomas Roberts, Otto von Busch, Timo Rissanen, Vidmina Stasiulyte, Celia Pym, Ryan Yasin
Papers by Jane MacRae Campbell
Gerbier's reputation as a schemer has recently been revised to reveal a complex Renaissance man, but his transatlantic schemes have been largely unexamined. His Project for Establishing a New State in America (1623; 1649) was written for the Duke of Buckingham who had a secret contract with King Adolphus of Sweden to make Buckingham ‘Master’ of ‘Florida, Jamaica, Havana, and Hispaniola’ and outlines a fully-realised state with a rich material culture ruled by princes and nobles. His 1654 literary utopia echoes this, while a more practical, but still idealistic, plan to settle Guiana in 1658 ended in tragedy. This paper identifies a moment of flux in European perceptions of the southern New World, as a site of the European utopian imagination became intertwined with the lived reality of colonial experiences, capable of destroying dreams and dreamers.
There is no arguing with the fact that the history of fashion, like the history of utopian thought, has been stained by suffering, exploitation, and even totalitarianism, but despite their deficiencies and faults, both have also fuelled human imagination, encouraged aspiration and innovation, and provided hope for a better sense of self and an improved, more inclusive society. A world without fashion, like a world without utopia, would be a very sad one. Through this special issue we propose a dialogue that embraces the significance of fashion in utopian visions and one that exploits the potential of utopian imagination to inspire better and more sustainable fashion futures. A dialogue that is fuelled by the belief that positive social change is both possible and desirable.
Guest editor: Mila Burcikova
Contributors: Jane MacRae Campbell, Justyna Galant, Annebella Pollen, Andrew Brookes, Kate Fletcher, Robert A. Francis, Emma Dulcie Rigby, Thomas Roberts, Otto von Busch, Timo Rissanen, Vidmina Stasiulyte, Celia Pym, Ryan Yasin