Lewis, Joanna

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  • Lewis, Joanna (2021). Women of the Somali diaspora: refugees, resilience and rebuilding after conflict. Hurst Publishers (London, England).
  • Lewis, Joanna (2020). Emotional rescue: the emotional turn in the study of history. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 51(1), 121 - 129. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01522
  • Lewis, Joanna (2020). Dynasties and decolonization: chieftaincy, politics and the use of history at the Victoria Falls, from the precolonial to the post-independence period. Africa : rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, 2(1), 87 - 115. https://doi.org/10.23744/2390
  • Lewis, Joanna (2020). Resilience: Somali women in the diaspora.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2019). Somali women, resilience and the diaspora. Journal of the Anglo-Somali Society/ Warsidaha Ururka Ingiriiska iyo Soomaalida, 65, 4 - 12.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2018). Empire of sentiment: the death of Livingstone and the myth of Victorian imperialism. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182591
  • Lewis, Joanna (2013). White man in a wood pile: race and the limits of macmillan's great 'wind of change' in Africa. In Butler, L. & Stockwell, S. (Eds.), The Wind of Change . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2012). Harold MacMillan and the wind of change. In Louis, W. R. (Ed.), Resurgent Adventures With Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain . I.B. Tauris Publishers.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2011). Livingstone and the 1955 white settler commemorations in the lost “Henley-upon-Thames” of central Africa. In Gewald, J. B., Hinfelaar, M. & Macola, G. (Eds.), Living the End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia . Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2011). The British Empire and world history: welfare imperialism and ‘soft power’ in the rise and fall of British rule. In Midgeley, J. & Piachaud, D. (Eds.), Colonialism and Welfare, Social Policy and the British Imperial Legacy . Edward Elgar.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2011). Rivers of white: David Livingstone and the 1955 commemorations in the lost 'Henley-upon-Thames of Central Africa'. In Gewald, J. B., Hinfelaar, M. & Macola, G. (Eds.), Living the End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia (pp. 147-186). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004209862.i-334
  • Lewis, Joanna (2007). Southampton and the making of an imperial myth: David Livingstone's remains. In Taylor, M. (Ed.), Southampton: Gateway to the British Empire (pp. 31-48). I.B. Tauris Publishers.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2007). Nasty, brutish and in shorts? British colonial rule, violence and the historians of Mau Mau. Round Table Journal, 96(389), 201-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358530701303392
  • Lewis, Joanna, Murphy, Philip (2006). 'The old pal's protection society': the Colonial Office and the media on the eve of decolonisation. In Kaul, C. (Ed.), The Press and Empire . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2003). Daddy wouldn't buy me a Mau Mau: the British popular press and the demoralisation of empire. In Odhiambo, E. S. A. & Londsdale, J. (Eds.), Mau Mau and Nationhood Arms, Authority and Narration (pp. 227-250). James Currey (Firm).
  • Lewis, Joanna (2001). The ruling compassions of the late colonial state: welfare versus force, Kenya 1945-1952. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 2(2).
  • Lewis, Joanna (2000). 'Tropical East Ends' and the Second World War: some contradictions in Colonial Office welfare initiatives. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 28(2), 42-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086530008583089
  • Lewis, Joanna (2000). Empire state-building: war & welfare in Kenya, 1925-52. James Currey (Firm).
  • Lewis, Joanna, Owens, Peggy, Pirouet, Lousie (1995). Human rights and the making of constitutions: Malawi, Kenya, Uganda - report of a workshop held at Trinity College, Cambridge, 11th February, 1995. University of Cambridge, African Studies Centre.
  • Hart, Keith, Lewis, Joanna (1995). Why Angola matters: report of a conference held at Pembroke College, Cambridge March 21-22, 1994. James Currey (Firm).
  • Askwith, Tom (1995). From Mau Mau to Harambee: memoirs and memoranda of colonial Kenya. University of Cambridge, African Studies Centre.
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  • Lewis, Joanna (15 August 2025) The misogyny paradox: the more it spreads, the less we can talk about it. Women, Peace and Security. picture_as_pdf
  • Bede, Farah, Lewis, Joanna (2023). Somali experiences of first wave Caabuqa-corona: an analysis of high COVID-19 mortality and infection levels in London’s East End, 2020. Journal of the British Academy, 11, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011.001 picture_as_pdf
  • Arman, Abukar, Woldemariam, Yohannes, Fasan, Olu, Ogeno, Charles, O'Byrne, Ryan Joseph, Weis, Julianne, Lewis, Joanna, De Waal, Alex, Bouka, Yolande, Mertens, Charlotte (26 December 2018) Reading list: most popular blog posts of 2018. Africa at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, Joanna (2018). Refugees are Givers, not just Takers. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, Joanna (2018). Somalis in the First World War. picture_as_pdf
  • Lewis, Joanna (2017). Book review: ivory: power and poaching in Africa by KeithSomerville.
  • Lewis, J. E. (2015). Empires of sentiment; intimacies from death: David Livingstone and African slavery 'at the heart of the nation'. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43(2), 210-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2014.974874
  • Lewis, Joanna (2013). Analysing Livingstone’s life and legacy through contradiction, complexity and controversy.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2013). Zambia conference celebrates the life and legacy of Scottish explorer David Livingstone.
  • Lewis, Joanna (2013). Scholars explore #Livingstone’s legacy and memory in conference to mark his bicentenary.