by Talking Humanities | Dec 12, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, is ‘extremely sceptical’ about the ‘old, tattered, comfort blanket’ of Commonwealth as Empire 2.0. There’s a widespread assumption that if the UK leaves the European Union (EU), the...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 4, 2019 | Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Professor Nando Sigona from the University of Birmingham analyses the results of ‘EU families and Eurochildren in Brexiting Britain’, a study investigating the fragility of the legal position of EU citizens in the UK. Mirela left Croatia in 1991 because...
by Talking Humanities | May 15, 2018 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
The director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), Professor Philip Murphy, writes about his new book, The Empire’s New Clothes, the Myth of the Commonwealth, which was published by Hurst in April. It was a rare example of a Baldrick-style ‘cunning plan’...
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 | Apr 9, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
As London prepares to host the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, senior research fellows at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), provide a challenging range of views on how the Commonwealth which emerged out of empire can renew itself as a...