by anna | Nov 24, 2018 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Dr Marika Sherwood Senior Research Fellow On 7 August 1914 Alhaji Grunshi of the Gold Coast Regiment, marching into the German colony of Togo, returned fire on the German-led police force. His was the first shot fired in what became World War 1. It was also the...
by anna | Nov 23, 2018 | Canada & the Caribbean, Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Dr Peter D Fraser Senior Research Fellow There is a memorial in Mumbai containing the names of perhaps the first British West Indians to die in combat in the First World War. They died around 8 p.m. on 1 November 1914 off the coast of Chile; they served as...
by anna | Nov 16, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Dr Sue Onslow, Deputy Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Reader in Commonwealth History introduces a series of contributions by Senior Research Fellows at the Institute about the huge contribution made by Commonwealth volunteers to the war effort...
by anna | Nov 16, 2018 | Asia, Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Dr Balasubramanyam ChandramohanSenior Research Fellow In India the start of World War 1 generated a great wave of enthusiasm, commitment and mobilisation of taxes, and voluntary donations by individuals and the rulers of princely states, an ‘almost universal loyalty’...
by anna | Sep 20, 2018 | Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights, Imperial and Postcolonial History
By Sir Ronald Sanders Racism was the bedrock of European colonialism in the Caribbean. The subjugation, oppression and exploitation of African people as ‘sub-human’ was justified by colonial powers based on race and colour. A crucial fixture of the architecture of...
by chloe | Apr 26, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, The Commonwealth
by Laurence Byrne, Research Librarian for Commonwealth Studies As Krishnan Srinivasan has noted, the Commonwealth is perhaps the only international organisation shaped by the British experience and by the experience that other nations have had of the British. No...
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