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Watch out Commonwealth – the empire is striking back on LGBT rights

Watch out Commonwealth – the empire is striking back on LGBT rights

by Talking Humanities | Jul 24, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, welcomes a new generation of Commonwealth activists who are using established legal and constitutional tools to tackle its ‘imperial-era homophobic laws’. I went to a rather...

#PoTW:Children of the Windrush Generation

by Talking Humanities | May 6, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW

The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British Empire, socioeconomic migrants, family reunions and marriage, refugees...
Battle lines drawn over trade in tusks

Battle lines drawn over trade in tusks

by Talking Humanities | Jul 26, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Republished

Image: African bush elephant skull, © JimJones1971 at English Wikipedia Professor Keith Somerville Ivory and elephants have for decades been very emotive topics among conservationists, wildlife departments and NGOs in states which have elephant populations and in...
Interview with Professor Philip Murphy

Interview with Professor Philip Murphy

by Talking Humanities | Mar 14, 2016 | Director Series, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law

We talk to the director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS), who says ‘far from gently fading away, the collective memory of empire and its consequences is becoming an ever more prominent element in current political debates.’ Professor Philip Murphy...

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