Angus Mitchell

Angus Mitchell is a historian and cultural critic, who has spent the last twenty years investigating the life and legacy of the British consul & Irish nationalist intellectual, Roger Casement. This scholarship has helped to retrieve a vital moment in the history of human rights and the environmental tragedy underscoring the modern awakening of Amazonia and sub-Saharan Africa. Through his engagement with action research, Mitchell has reconfigured one of the longest running controversies in World History concerning the authenticity of the ‘Black Diaries’, deposited in the UK's National Archives (Kew). In recent years, Mitchell has extended his focus of interest to include the circle of anti-colonial activists and pacifists of the early twentieth century, who stood up to the oppressive excesses of modernization.