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 | Jul 1, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
‘Decolonisation’ has become a buzzword. However, few of those who deploy the term know much about its history, and perhaps more surprisingly, the same is true for ‘enlightenment’. This blissful tandem of historical ignorance is not as innocent as it appears. For...
by Talking Humanities | Jun 6, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Languages & Literature
Dr Joseph Ford believes that falling admissions to modern languages (ML) programmes at UK universities and the ongoing threat of closure to some departments, makes it incumbent on academics to consider their research within the wider teaching landscape. ‘Doing so’,...
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 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...
