Veterans’ Voices: Legacies of Britain’s Nuclear Testing Programme

Dr Christopher R. Hill is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Wales. His recent research, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), has explored the historical role of imperialism across the cycle of nuclear development in Britain, from uranium mining in Namibia and South Africa to nuclear weapons testing in Australia and the Pacific. Chris is Principal Investigator for the Office for Veterans’ Affairs project: ‘An Oral History of British Nuclear Test Veterans’. His next book, Radiant Empire: Namibian Uranium and Nuclear Britain, is due to be published in 2027 by Stanford University Press.

Dr Jonathan Hogg is a Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century History at the University of Liverpool, specialising in the cultural and social history of British nuclear mobilisation. His book British Nuclear Culture offered a new interpretation of the British nuclear century by tracing the tensions between 'official' and 'unofficial' narratives. Jon is the Co-Investigator on An Oral History of British Nuclear Test Veterans, funded by the Office for Veteran Affairs. Jon’s upcoming research will focus on a case study on proposed Uranium mining on Orkney in the 1970s and an exploration of life in 1980s nuclear Britain.

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