Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History in the School of Social and Political Sciences at Brunel University of London. His teaching and research focus on maritime history, slavery and the slave trade, emigration and immigration, and music history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His previous publications include Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (1993), Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy (2000), Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America (2007), Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia (2016), and Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia (2021).