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

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...

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

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...

Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65

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...

As Gaza is being destroyed, the so-called oil fund enjoys robust returns from companies linked to Israel's military.

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...

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...

In recent years, one of the most controversial stories on the British left is the trajectory of the far left Trotskyist group, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) to the libertarian/contrarian ...

Seventy years after the 1956 Women's March, South Africa still celebrates men's anti-apartheid struggle and pushes women's activism to the margins. The cost is visible now.

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 essay takes issue with Lorenzo Veracini’s argument in this journal that the violence and destruction in Gaza following October 7, 2023 marks the failure of Israeli settler colonialism. More im...

The Gulf is an “aimperial” space at the “center of the world.” It is neither anti-imperial, it benefits from trade linking empires, nor on the frontier, its space is well known. Instead, the people...

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

In the face of exploding investments into the weapons industry, the rise of the AfD, and the silence in the face of plausible genocide, Kai Koddenbrock’s talk explores how these old and more recent…

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In May 2022, the High Court of Australia ruled that the correspondence between Governor-General Sir John Kerr and Queen Elizabeth II constituted Commonwealth records and not ‘personal’ records as t...

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)

The lower chamber of Congress passed a measure that seeks to halt further military action, in a vote seen as largely symbolic.

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Exclusive: Prosecutors recommend police investigation into Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and cabinet members

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

Following the 2015 #RhodesMustFall movement in South Africa and amidst calls to «decolonize academia», decolonial theory has become increasingly read and cited in many academic disciplines. But as ...

Volume 54, Issue 2 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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

Using unexamined Girl Guide publications, government papers and oral history testimonies, this article examines how the role of the Girl Guide movement changed throughout late colonial Hong Kong. I...