by louisa | Feb 13, 2020 | The Commonwealth
by Professor Philip Murphy, Director of Institute of Commonwealth Studies In what now appears to have been a concerted manoeuvre, first New Zealand and then Australia and the UK revealed they were withholding or in the case of Australia actually cancelling financial...
by anna | Feb 8, 2019 | Africa, Imperial and Postcolonial History
December 2018 marked the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, between 5 and 13 December 1958. Under the slogan ‘Hands off Africa!!’, the AAPC was a watershed moment in the history of Africa’s liberation from...
by chloe | Apr 25, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, 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 | Apr 24, 2018 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Susan Williams, Senior Research Fellow How one addresses the question of the Commonwealth’s relevance depends on one’s perception of ‘the Commonwealth’. It is known globally as an international association, bringing together 53 ‘independent and equal...
by chloe | Apr 23, 2018 | Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, The Commonwealth
by Nicholas S.J. Watts, Senior Research Fellow The relevance of the Commonwealth can only be established in a political context. When the Second World War ended, for example, and the British Empire increasingly looked set to fade, Nehru became the statesman who would...
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