by Talking Humanities | Jul 18, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
As India gears up to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its freedom from British rule on 15 August, PhD student, Rahul Ranjan reflects on the country’s postcolonial record. Historically, the fight for independence figures in the world history of colonisation as one...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 20, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: Damara Zebras at Chudop waterhole, Etosha, Namibia. Wikimedia Commons Professor Henning Melber tries to find something that ‘the land of wide open spaces’, Namibia, can celebrate on its 27th anniversary of independence. Most visitors to Namibia are impressed....
by Talking Humanities | Nov 15, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
As part of this year’s Being Human humanities festival, academics from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) and the University of Bristol, have joined forces to form the ‘Archive to Blockbuster Four’ (A2BFour). During an evening event at Senate House on 21...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 18, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Events, Features, From the Archives, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Professor Clem Seecharan (above) has written some ten books on the colonial history of Guyana including the recent Hand-in-Hand: History of Cricket in Guyana, 1865-1897. As part of this year’s Being Human humanities festival, academics from the Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 28, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Keith Somerville, senior research fellow at the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies has just published a new book, ‘Africa’s long road since independence. The many histories of a continent’. It deals with the great diversity of...
