by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jul 7, 2016 | The Commonwealth
By Sue Onslow, Senior Research Fellow, ICwS By voting to leave the European Union, Britain’s future relationship with its fellow Commonwealth members has assumed both a greater significance and a greater degree of uncertainty. Before the poll, the uniform message from...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jun 21, 2016 | The Commonwealth
By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, ICWS, Commonwealth Oral History Project The campaign ahead of the EU referendum on Thursday 23rd June has been bitterly fought by both the Remain and Leave camps, with rhetoric and statistics bombarded at voters on a...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | Jun 2, 2016 | Africa, The Commonwealth
By Professor Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS Just before May’s anti-corruption summit in London, British prime Minister David Cameron, made his now infamous public gaffe when he boasted to the Queen in a rather a silly, schoolboyish way that,...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | May 27, 2016 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Regions, The Commonwealth
By Professor Henning Melber, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS Image credit: Botschaft-MadagaskarSince the turn of the century the middle classes of the global South have taken centre stage in economic policy circles. Animated by diversification of some countries’...
by Jack Saffery-Rowe | May 20, 2016 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History, The Commonwealth
By Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS It is hard to believe, but it is 40 years since the pupils of Soweto confronted the apartheid state. It was the beginning of the end of white rule in South Africa. But the children – many of them very young – paid a...
by chloe | May 16, 2016 | The Commonwealth
by Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan PhD, FRSA, FHEA, ICWS Senior Research Fellow Bank Holidays are a good time to let some thoughts break through normal routines of academic life. As I sit facing across the window, with a magnolia tree in full bloom and not many yards...
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