The Ethos of the Historian: The Minutes of Evidence Project, and Lives Lived with Law on the Ground

Authors

Julie Evans, University of Melbourne

Abstract

I sit writing this from Lewes, a town that nestles by the chalky edge of the Downs in Southeast England. I have come here to spend some sabbatical leave at the University of Sussex, with colleagues and friends, historians like me. We have been working together for several years on a project called Minutes of Evidence, in which we have tried to make sense of the myriad ways in which settler colonialism operated, as a matter of law and administration, across the British Empire and within individual colonies, and to consider its impacts on everyday lives and questions of justice, past and present.

Recommended Citation

Evans, Julie, The Ethos of the Historian: The Minutes of Evidence Project, and Lives Lived with Law on the Ground, Law Text Culture, 20, 2016, 136-164.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol20/iss1/7