by chloe | Oct 20, 2015 | Asia, Human Rights, The Commonwealth
by William Crawley and David Page, ICWS Senior Research Fellows The articles in our edited volume Embattled Media were written before the Presidential election in Sri Lanka in which President Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated and removed from office. For some of our...
by chloe | Mar 27, 2015 | Asia, Canada & the Caribbean
by Sir Ronald Sanders, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Lee Kuan Yew, who led Singapore for three decades, died on March 23rd. He was a remarkable man who is best remembered for courageous leadership that converted a tiny island with virtually...
by chloe | Feb 27, 2015 | Africa, Asia, Imperial and Postcolonial History
by Chris Moffat, ICWS Early Career Researcher in Commonwealth Studies The Hidden History of Decolonization: What do the ‘migrated archives’ reveal about British withdrawal from Empire? Last Friday, 20 February 2015, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies convened an...
by virginiafiguero | May 20, 2014 | Asia, Uncategorized
By Dr James Chiriyankandath Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and Co-Editor of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. With the din of the Indian election campaign dying away and the refrain of the BJP –...
by virginiafiguero | Apr 9, 2014 | Asia
By Sir Ronald Sanders, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and a former Caribbean diplomat The association of 53 nations of the Commonwealth is facing yet another ordeal due to the actions of the government of Sri...
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...
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