by anna | Apr 15, 2019 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Elections, Human Rights, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, Media Freedom, The Commonwealth
By Dr Sue Onslow – Deputy Director of The Institute of Commonwealth Studies This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and – unlike the more dubious claims and convenient myths of the modern Commonwealth...
by anna | Nov 25, 2018 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, World War One
Martin Plaut Senior Research Fellow – ICWS The outbreak of the First World War, coming little more than a decade after the Anglo-Boer war had ended, faced South Africans with a conundrum. Should they join Britain and her allies, despite having fought so fiercely...
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’...
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