by laura | Dec 2, 2015 | The Commonwealth
By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies After months of campaigning in the quiet corners of diplomatic offices, online on social media and in speeches from Gaborone to Valletta, the Commonwealth heads of government voted on...
by laura | Nov 27, 2015 | Human Rights, The Commonwealth
by Martin Plaut, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS Newly-released documents show that in 1985, the PM wrote to the Foreign Office seeking action on the Marxist and pro-Soviet regime in Ethiopia. Towards the end of 1985, at the height of the worst famine in modern Ethiopian...
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 | May 13, 2013 | Africa
By Keith Somerville, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies It seems that despite being invited to London to attend the recent international conference on Somalia and meetings with UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Uhuru Kenyatta seems to think...
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