Writing & Broadcasting
• ‘Airborne’, British Art UnCanon, October 2022
• ‘Colonial Mentalities’, History Today, 70:9, September 2020, pp. 90-93
• ‘On Black Lives Matter’, Historical Association News, Autumn 2020, pp. 6-7
• ‘John Baptist Dasalu and fighting for freedom’, The Essay, Radio 3
• Contributor, ‘The Zong Massacre’, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4
• Contributor, ‘Ships and History’, Free Thinking, Radio 3
2025
Dr Jake Subryan Richards has won the Sir Julian Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History for 2024
Jake won the award for for an essay entitled: “Remaking the Middle Passage: Naval Suppression and Captive Resistance in Atlantic Africa, 1807–1850”.
Based on findings from his forthcoming book, The Bonds of Freedom (Yale University Press), the essay argued that the dynamics of suppression replicated the conditions of a transatlantic crossing for captive people.
2024
Jake Subryan Richards works as co-curator in the exhibition team behind Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
The exhibition was displayed at the University of Cambridge Museums and has been recognized by the Association for Art History, with the award of the 2024 Curatorial Prize for Exhibitions.
The exhibition team also received a Highly Commended award from Museums + Heritage Awards 2024 for best Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year – Budget over £80k.
2022
New Position in Emerging Curators Group
Dr Richards has been awarded a position in the Emerging Curators Group 2021/22, organized by the British Art Network. He will undertake academic and curatorial research as part of an ongoing project with the University of Cambridge Museums.
2021
Co-winner of the Prince Consort & Thirlwall Prize and Seeley Medal
Dr Richards received the prize from the Faculty of History at Cambridge University for best doctoral dissertation. His thesis was on how abolition laws shaped the opportunities and limitations for "liberated Africans" in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Read more
2020
New article
Dr Richards' latest article was released online by the Comparative Studies in Society and History journal. “The Adjudication of Slave Ship Captures, Coercive Intervention, and Value Exchange in Comparative Atlantic Perspective, ca. 1839-1870” argues that abolition as a legal field emerged from interactions between liberated Africans, British diplomatic and naval agents, and local political elites in Brazil and on the Upper Guinea Coast.

‘On Black Lives Matter’, Historical Association News, Autumn 2020, pp. 6-7
‘Colonial Mentalities’, History Today, 70:9, September 2020, pp. 90-93
Contributor, ‘The Zong Massacre’, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 26 November