by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 4, 2014 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights
By Mandy Banton, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS; formerly of the UK National Archives Despite rumours and half-truths long in existence, the official line that no locally created records of former colonial governments were transferred to London at independence was...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Mar 27, 2014 | Africa
By Richard Bourne OBE, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Nigeria, put together by Lord Lugard in January 1914, has just been celebrating its centenary. This is slightly less of a hooley than the celebration of 50 years of independence in...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Jan 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
If the diversity of the Commonwealth member states in their economic ambitions and political aspirations is not managed to create mutual understanding and goodwill, it is their differences and divergences that will prevail.
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Dec 13, 2013 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, The Commonwealth
By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM Sir Ronald Sanders is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He was a member and Rapporteur of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (2010-2011) and a former Caribbean Diplomat. “Get...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Dec 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Dr Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, ICwS As an integral part of the oral history project on the Commonwealth, last week we organised a key note lecture by former Secretary General Sir Sonny Ramphal (1975-1990). This was deliberately scheduled for the eve of the...
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