Melinda Elder

Melinda Elder has taught as an associate lecturer for The Open University since 1992. A graduate of Keele and Lancaster Universities, her research interests centre on Lancaster's transatlantic trade, including the port's involvement in the slave trade which led to the publication of her book, The Slave Trade and the Economic Development of Eighteenth-Century Lancaster in 1992.
Melinda has also contributed to the Lancaster episode of Radio 4's Mapping the Town and written local entries for the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Black British History. Current interests include the organisation of Lancaster's transatlantic trade in the Caribbean islands.