Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2113777
Simón C. Smith
ABSTRACT There is growing recognition that the end of formal empire did not equate with the ending of ties between the imperial power and its erstwhile dependencies. This was especially so of the ‘fortress colony’ of Malta which following constitutional separation from Britain in September 1964 remained firmly linked to Britain economically and militarily. The existing historiography suggests that Britain actively sought to maintain imperial connections after decolonisation, even to the extent of attempting to convert formal empire into informal influence. The case of Malta, by contrast, indicates that the remaining imperial ties proved increasingly vexatious for Britain which sought either to limit its liabilities or even transfer them to its NATO allies. For their part, the Maltese proved adept at manipulating, cajoling, and even threatening the former imperial power to maintain and even increase its commitments to the island, especially in the military and financial fields.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2106219
J. Weston
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Pub Date : 2022-08-21DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2113389
Dean Blackburn
Published in Contemporary British History (Ahead of Print, 2022)
发表于《当代英国历史》(印刷前，2022年)
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Pub Date : 2022-08-12DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2110471
R. Ankit
ABSTRACT Between 1947 and 1972, governments of India and Pakistan laid claims to ownership, management and share of the India Office Library & Records. These attempts and the British government’s responses to them have been bypassed by scholars of decolonisation. This article traces the trajectory of that dispute’s three distinct phases, wherein different proposals were mooted to wrest and retain, respectively the riches and records of the IOL&R. Unlike the more-studied African and Southeast Asian cases from the former British Empire, this dispute was less clear-cut and therefore more demanding of both sides in their manoeuvres to pursue their desires. Legal, administrative and technical bids were made in historical and moral arguments, with cultural and economic factors listed in support. In providing their details, this article demonstrates a difficult episode for decolonisation, where at stake was both its curated imperial past and yet-to-be written national narratives. It shows how symbols of a shared history as well as sources of that history’s separate writing became an arena of contest as much for the old glory as for new profits. At a time when decolonising history is in vogue, this article depicts the difficulties of even diversifying the artefacts of colonial history.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2108410
Kieran Connell
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Pub Date : 2022-08-06DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2108411
Sarah Kenny
canonisation of Pride as a memory resource is demonstrated by Horvat’s interactions with archivists at the People’s History Museum, the emergence of LGSMigrants and the reignited interest in LGSM at Pride events across the country. By demonstrating the obfuscations in the film’s content, Horvat makes a case for considering the types of queer histories which are being presented as vital queer memories. Beyond this and perhaps most pressingly, it asks once presented with these pasts, what kinds of futures are viewers encouraged to seek.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2105837
Bent Jones
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2098720
I. Mcneely
ABSTRACT This article is the first properly historical treatment of the intrusive regime of research (and now teaching) assessments that are now familiar to all UK academics. Eight times since the mid-1980s, British universities have been required to participate in ‘research selectivity’, ‘research assessment’, or ‘research excellence’ exercises conducted on a national scale, and designed to introduce corporate management techniques into higher education. In seeming paradox, a system of top-down steering, hands-on regulation, and artificially engineered competition was created by governments committed to free market principles, deregulation, and privatisation starting under Margaret Thatcher. This article shows how the drive for research excellence made Thatcher’s Britain into the pioneer of a new kind of intrusively managed university that has since become a global model. Making use of a rich vertical archive and a sophisticated policy literature, it provides a nuanced, empirical, historically grounded corrective to an often polemical debate on the ‘corporatisation’ or ‘neoliberalisation’ of higher learning over the past forty years. It should be of interest not merely to historians of higher education, but to anyone who views with concern the metrification of university performance in Britain and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2100987
N. Barnett
ABSTRACT This article examines how the activist group Women for Life on Earth (WFLOE) attempted to persuade the USSR to ditch their nuclear weapons. The article finds that WFLOE began a women-led campaign and engaged with unofficial activists and ordinary people in the USSR to lobby the Soviet government to disarm. WFLOE’s fame as ‘Greenham Women’ helped them to publicise their overseas activism and they attempted to challenge predominant representations of peace campaigners in the UK by campaigning against Soviet nuclear weapons. However, this success was limited with the Cold War maintaining primacy for the British press and WFLOE only gaining positive coverage when they caused embarrassment to the Soviets.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2088518
D. Renshaw
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