African paramount chiefs visiting Britain provide a context to colonial itineraries that is markedly different from imperial travels to colonies. Far from being pawns and exhibits of empire who are...

The British and the Aotearoa New Zealand governments in the mid-1880s proposed a trial colonisation of Scottish Hebridean crofter fishing families in the southernmost Otago province. These settlers...

Liana MacDonald exposes how settler colonialism is sustained by the places we move through, the institutions we work in and the stories we tell.

"Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka" published on 23 Feb 2026 by Brill.

This article examines how the imperial press promoted othering in its documentation of the Nawab Begums of Bhopal. While stereotyping was largely based on the racial and gendered categorisation of ...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Responding to a shift in global narrative favouring nation’s right to self-determination, Britain became overly protective of its empire during the interwar years (1919–1939). Consequently, in Brit...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

As part of his voyage to London in December 1955, David Marshall, chief minister of the British colony of Singapore, toured the newly independent Commonwealth countries of Ceylon, India, and Pakist...

The Ottoman Empire didn’t just dissolve—it was destroyed. This revealing new history exposes Britain’s central role in tearing it apart.

I would like to draw a genealogy of Donald Trump's rhetoric and military action in Venezuela and Iran, in particular, of how the acquisition of the resources of another country through a military o...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Migrants have created Britain despite the current hostility which has surfaced and manifested itself most disturbingly in rioting against a variety of groups, including those seeking refugee status...

Volume 54, Issue 5 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Manchester University Press remembers Professor John M. MacKenzie, founding editor of Studies in Imperialism, with tributes from colleagues reflecting on his scholarship, generosity and lasting legacy...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

I would like to draw a genealogy of Donald Trump's rhetoric and military action in Venezuela and Iran, in particular, of how the acquisition of the resources of another country through a military o...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Volume 54, Issue 5 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Manchester University Press remembers Professor John M. MacKenzie, founding editor of Studies in Imperialism, with tributes from colleagues reflecting on his scholarship, generosity and lasting legacy...

This article reframes the Arabic-Malayalam martyrdom hagiographies (Kissappāṭṭ) of the Mappila Muslims as a crucial site of intellectual and historiographical resistance within British Malabar. It ...

This article examines the experiences of Australian sailors and marines who travelled to China to fight in the Boxer Rebellion between 1900 and 1901. It analyses their diaries and correspondence to...

The belief in a ‘natural’ Irish sympathy with the Palestinian people, based on a shared history of colonisation, is a very widespread one. Indeed, many suggest that the legacy of resistance to Brit...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Rajkumar Hirani’s Dunki (2023) provides a cultural lens for examining the transformation of British imperial mobility into contemporary migration control regimes. This discussion article argues tha...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

The belief in a ‘natural’ Irish sympathy with the Palestinian people, based on a shared history of colonisation, is a very widespread one. Indeed, many suggest that the legacy of resistance to Brit...

During the 1960s, a tidal wave of nationalisation washed over newly independent Afro-Asian countries as these postcolonial states sought to mobilise their resources for development. The Indira Gand...

Entangled Objects, Living Histories Richard Vokes   Since the turn of the millennium, ties between Africa and Australia have grown substantially. However, connections between the two continents are no...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

This article explores challenges of scale for British imperial governance and criminal investigation through the lens of incendiary fires on the island of Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos Islands...

This article examines the emigration of children from Belfast workhouse in the opening years of the twentieth century. Belfast, a thriving industrial city at the heart of empire and itself a produc...

This article considers how seemingly peripheral actors’ policies, actions and imperial ambitions shaped global uranium supply in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It does so with a p...

This article explores the remarkable transformation of Major-General James Wolfe’s posthumous reputation during the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of British and Canadian sources,...

Collective punishment policy in Mandatory Palestine evolved through two distinct phases, shaped by the social and political environments in which it was applied. Drawing on archival correspondence,...

This manuscript investigates pragmatism as an analytical lens for understanding the foreign policy of Kuwait Town during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular attention to the po...

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

As with other minorities, Assyrians found themselves caught up in the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of modern Iraq. Rather than opposing colonial rule, they sought to gain recogni...