British Empire

History Teaching, Imperialism and Decolonization in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1945-1958)

by Iris Seri-Hersch

PhD dissertation defended on May 17, 2012 at Aix-Marseille Université. Written in French.

Situating the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the wider frame of British imperial history, this dissertation investigates... more Situating the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the wider frame of British imperial history, this dissertation investigates school history in late colonial Sudan. Didactic materials, prescribed contents and pedagogic practices are analyzed against the background of five major developments of the 1945-1953 period: the shifting of British imperialism in Africa towards “paternalist-progressive” policies aiming at preparing colonial peoples for self-government; the polarization of British and Egyptian positions on the Sudanese issue; mounting rivalries between the independentist and unionist wings of Sudanese nationalism; the hasty unification of Northern and Southern Sudan after more than half a century of separate rule; and Northern Sudanese policies of Arabization and Islamization in the South as a tool for achieving “national unification”.
In a second part, the innovative character of post-WWII history teaching in Sudan is assessed by examining earlier patterns of Sudanese school history. History teaching in late colonial Sudan is then compared with history teaching in other territories of the (ex-)Empire (Uganda, North Rhodesia, Nigeria, Egypt, India, Great Britain). Two central postcolonial issues are further explored, namely the decolonization of school historical narratives after independence (1956) and the role of history teaching in fuelling the North-South conflict in Sudan.

Sport, manhood and empire: British responses to the New Zealand rugby tour of 1905

by John Nauright

This article analyzes British responses to the successes of the 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team in the context... more This article analyzes British responses to the successes of the 1905 New Zealand All Black rugby team in the context of fears of racial degeneration in Britain. It further explores how the British viewed the New Zealand team's innovative style of play including changes to standard formations used in the game as well as specialized positional play. Finally concepts of colonial robust masculinity suggested to British experts that the British "race" was not necessarily in decline in the colonies of settlement as evidenced both by troop performance in the South African War of 1899-1902 and on the playing fields.

Great Britain and the UN Committee of 24

by Helene von Bismarck

op-ed column for the British Scholar Society, May 2012

Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in South Africa, c. 1890-1904

by John Nauright

Published in CORNISH HISTORY an online journal in 2005. Online link seems to be missing now. This article forms part of the work of my Masters Thesis at the University of South Carolina completed in 1988.

The Struggle for Mastery of India: Parliament vs. the East India Company, 1763-c.1800

by Michael Chiarello

An Empire of Good Intentions? Liberalism and the Justification of Britain's Empire in India, c.1820-1905

by Michael Chiarello

Final Paper for Seminar in European History: European Colonial Cultures

The Scandal of Empire: A Review Essay

by Michael Chiarello

The State and Economic Development

by Nemanja Sukalo

Postcolonializing Glasgow's Amnesia: Alasdair Gray's Lanark as a Palimpsest of Scottish Imperial History

by Carla Sassi

in G. Collier, M. Delrez, A. Fuchs, B. Ledent (eds.), Engaging with Literature of Commitment, vol.2, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012.

Understanding the illegal slave trade during the British occupation of La Réunion (1810-1815)’ In Labache et al (eds.) Identité et Société Réunionnaise. Nouvelles Perspectives, Nouvelles Approches. Paris: Karthala 2004. 21p (in French)

by Heloise Finch-Boyer

Gauge, Battleground, Weapon: Celebrations in Cold War Cyprus, 1945-1955

by Christopher Sutton

A short article for Ex Plus Ultra.

TartariaMag_issue1-2012

by Nikolay Tsyrempilov

Sir Joseph Hooker's collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

by Mark Nesbitt

Goyder, D., P. Griggs, M. Nesbitt, L. Parker & K. Ross-Jones. 2012. Sir Joseph Hooker's collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 29(1): 66-85.

Review of Richard Gott - "Britain's Empire"

by Adam Timmins

Conference: British Art as International Art, 1851 to 1960

by Kate Aspinall

Members of the University of East Anglia’s World Art Studies and Museology Department Greg Salter, Kitty Hudson, Rosanna Eckersley and Kate Aspinall are organising the graduate symposium 'British Art as International Art, 1851 to 1960' on Friday the 20th and Saturday the 21st of April (programme available on website).

Keynote speakers:

Emma Chambers of Tate Britain, presenting “Migrations: Émigré Artists in British Art”, and Michael Hatt of the University of Warwick, presenting “From New England to Nowhere: Edward Carpenter, Fred Holland Day and the Dream of Placelessness”

Registration:

The symposium is free, but spaces are limited, so please register before 2nd April, either by emailing the organisers at britartinternational@gmail.com or on the website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/art/ events-news/event

Governing Model Populations: Queries, Quantification, and William Petty’s “Scale of Salubrity”

by Ted McCormick

Thirty years after: Argentina and the United Kingdom towards a new Falklands war?

by Davide Borsani

"'Truth Systematised': The Changing Debate over Slavery and Abolition, 1761-1916"

by Robert Pierce Forbes

Original version of an essay that appeared in Timothy Patrick  O'Brien and John Stauffer , eds., _Prophets of Protest: Reconsidering the HIstory of American Abolitionism (The New Press, 2006), pp. 3-22.

The role of Opium in the Expansion of the British Empire from 1764 to 1825 - Guillermo Pineda

by Guillermo Pineda

"The Lettered Paul: Remnant and Mission in Hannah More, Walter Scott, and Critical Theory"

by Dustin D. Stewart

Studies in Romanticism 50.4 (2011): 591-618, in press.

As scholars reconsider the stories of secularization that still undergird our study of nineteenth-century British... more As scholars reconsider the stories of secularization that still undergird our study of nineteenth-century British thought, this essay develops a comparison of two Romantic writers normally divided by such stories, Hannah More and Walter Scott. In both authors’ texts, in the shadow of Napoleon, the essay identifies a distinctively Pauline epistolarity at work. More and Scott turn to the Pauline letter in writings about the biblical apostle, in properly epistolary works, and elsewhere; and this article argues for the significance of that form as a vehicle, at once politico-theological and formal, by which they explore questions of empire. But if the Pauline letter is central, it is, for them and for us, plural rather than singular. Thus the present essay follows the tensions pulsing within Pauline epistolarity--competing senses of the letter that have to do, finally, with the competing possibilities of Saint Paul--out into disagreements that animate recent theoretical studies of the apostle. As in More and Scott, so too in contemporary critical theory, Paul can figure either for a universalizing force, an empire to end all empires, or for a particular remainder that, in its very critique of imperial logic, demands alternative ways of mediating the local and the global. To use the terms of this essay, the former understanding inscribes the Pauline letter, that little-discussed Romantic form, as mission, while the latter conception claims it as remnant.