by chloe | Apr 25, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, The Commonwealth
by Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow On the face of it, the Commonwealth is a strange beast. A hotchpotch of 53 nations, covering a quarter of the world’s land-mass, its leaders represent (after a fashion) a third of world’s population. Born out of the Empire, it...
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 commonwealth-oral-history-project | Aug 13, 2013 | Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights
By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received £11.6 billion in today’s value as compensation for the emancipation...
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