Dr Lloyd Belton

  • British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship – Research Associate (History) (History)

Biography

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow. I am a historian of the eighteenth and nineteenth-century Atlantic world focussed on slavery, carcerality, abolitionism and empire. My current research examines the pivotal role of West African mariners in the making of the Atlantic world alongside a new interdisciplinary project on the legacies of colonial-era mass incarceration in the Americas.

  • PhD in History, University of Leeds
  • MA/MSc in International and World History, Columbia University and London School of Economics
  • BA (History), University of Melbourne

Publications

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2025

Crutcher, Megan and Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2025) “They Do Not Have Physiognomies of Their Own”: Tracking racialization of maritime professions in the eighteenth-century Portuguese empire. Journal of Social History, (doi: 10.1093/jsh/shaf001) (Early Online Publication)

Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2025) Raça, resistência e revolução: o mundo atlântico de Emiliano F. B. Mundrucu (1791-1863). In: Cabral de Souza, George F. and Maciel de Carvalho, Marcus Joaquim (eds.) Confederação do Equador : a luta pela cidadania na construção do Brasil. Series: Edições do Senado Federal (347). Senado Federal: Brazil, pp. 125-164. ISBN 9786556766171

2023

Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2023) 'She refused to be left behind’: the sinews of modern day trafficking in the late illegal US-Brazil slave trade, ca. 1860s-1880s. Slavery and Abolition, 44(3), pp. 496-518. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2023.2236434)

2021

Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2021) ‘A Deep Interest in Your Cause’: The inter-American sphere of black abolitionism and civil rights. Slavery and Abolition, 42(3), pp. 589-609. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2020.1860651)

2018

Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2018) Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu: Inter-American revolutionary and abolitionist (1791–1863). Atlantic Studies, 15(1), pp. 62-82. (doi: 10.1080/14788810.2017.1336609)

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Number of items: 5.

Articles

Crutcher, Megan and Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2025) “They Do Not Have Physiognomies of Their Own”: Tracking racialization of maritime professions in the eighteenth-century Portuguese empire. Journal of Social History, (doi: 10.1093/jsh/shaf001) (Early Online Publication)

Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2023) 'She refused to be left behind’: the sinews of modern day trafficking in the late illegal US-Brazil slave trade, ca. 1860s-1880s. Slavery and Abolition, 44(3), pp. 496-518. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2023.2236434)

Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2021) ‘A Deep Interest in Your Cause’: The inter-American sphere of black abolitionism and civil rights. Slavery and Abolition, 42(3), pp. 589-609. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2020.1860651)

Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2018) Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu: Inter-American revolutionary and abolitionist (1791–1863). Atlantic Studies, 15(1), pp. 62-82. (doi: 10.1080/14788810.2017.1336609)

Book Sections

Belton, Lloyd ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-6962 (2025) Raça, resistência e revolução: o mundo atlântico de Emiliano F. B. Mundrucu (1791-1863). In: Cabral de Souza, George F. and Maciel de Carvalho, Marcus Joaquim (eds.) Confederação do Equador : a luta pela cidadania na construção do Brasil. Series: Edições do Senado Federal (347). Senado Federal: Brazil, pp. 125-164. ISBN 9786556766171

This list was generated on Sat Sep 20 05:24:30 2025 BST.

Grants

  • British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022-2026
  • 'The Havana Royal Prison Logbooks (1836-98): digitisation, preservation and dissemination' (EAP1676), Endangered Archives Programme, The British Library, 2025-2026 - co-PI
  • 'Using AI to Track Systemic Racism in Historical Carceral Systems’ (ES/X004872/1), Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC), 2025-2026 - co-PI

Teaching

HIST4297 - West African Mariners and the Making of the Atlantic World

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

  • 2022 - 2026: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship