by Talking Humanities | Jan 16, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished, Research & Resources
Martin Plaut, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, remembers Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, a leading political voice among South Africa’s ‘coloured’ community whose passionate advocacy changed the course of the country’s legislation and...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 25, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. And over those years it has grown and flourished to develop the link between policy and practice, writes Dr Sue Onslow, the institute’s deputy director. The Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 31, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, on what white Afrikaner leaders and black South Africans gained for their show of...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 17, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: President Nelson Mandela with Michael Manley, former prime minister of Jamaica and leader of the Commonwealth Observer Group to the first post-apartheid elections in South Africa in 1994. © Commonwealth Secretariat In the ninth of a series of scholarly...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 16, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Libraries & Publications, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources
© Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock ‘Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”...
