by Talking Humanities | May 21, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Black British history lecturer Dr Hannah Elias, remembers Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1964 visit to London where he commanded a 4,000-strong congregation at St Paul’s Cathedral, that bulwark of national and imperial memory which was also a site of radical...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 31, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Politics & Law, Republished
A remark by Boris Johnson, that “there is such a thing as society” in a recent press conference reflects the all-encompassing social impact of the coronavirus pandemic, says Dr Ben Williams, a lecturer in politics and political theory at the University of Salford. But...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 12, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Tripurdaman Singh, who holds a British Academy Fellowship at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, has just published his new book Sixteen Stormy Days, exploring one of the pivotal events in Indian political history. As India marks the 70th anniversary of the...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 23, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, reports on a conference urging the governments of Commonwealth member states to take concrete action and put the issue of press freedom high on their list of priorities. How serious is the...
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...