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’...
by anna | Oct 1, 2018 | Canada & the Caribbean, Regions, The Commonwealth
By Sir Ronald Sanders Except at time of crisis, many countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) credit their foreign ministries and their embassies or high commissions abroad with little value. Yet, diplomacy, which is the work of foreign ministries and their...
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