Theo Williams

Dr Theo Williams is a Lecturer in Social History at the University of Glasgow, specializing in race, empire, and political radicalism. His work focuses on global Black radicalism, anti-colonial movements, and their impact on British society. He previously held a fixed-term lectureship in modern British history at Durham University (2020–2023) and earned his PhD in History from King’s College London in 2019.

Research interests include Black British history, imperialism/anti-imperialism, socialism, and the transnational dynamics shaping political activism. Key publications include his monograph Making the Revolution Global (2022) and contributions to Routledge Handbook on Anti-racism (2024). He co-edited Anti-racism in Britain (2024), exploring anti-racist traditions from 1880 to the present.

His current project examines anticolonialism and Third Worldism in Britain (c.1945–1990). Articles span topics like Pan-Africanism’s influence on British socialism, Orwell’s anti-imperialism, and gender dimensions of Black radical movements.