The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
@jich.bsky.social
A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Pinned
JICH will now award two annual prizes: The Stockwell-Burroughs Prize for Best Article; & the Murphy-Howe Prize for Best Postgrad Article.
Winners will be announced each Feb & receive £200 in book vouchers from @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Winning articles will become free access for 12 months.
Winners will be announced each Feb & receive £200 in book vouchers from @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Winning articles will become free access for 12 months.
Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, check out 'Containment and Engagement: Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand’s Cold War Relations with the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1980s' by Dalton Rawcliffe: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Containment and Engagement: Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand’s Cold War Relations with the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1980s
This article examines the Cold War strategies of Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand towards the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from 1949 to the 1980s. As members of the Commonwealth and ...
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, check out 'Containment and Engagement: Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand’s Cold War Relations with the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1980s' by Dalton Rawcliffe: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Check out the recent article 'Nasser’s Islamic Propaganda and British Decolonisation Policy in Northern Nigeria' by Ismail Misbahu: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Nasser’s Islamic Propaganda and British Decolonisation Policy in Northern Nigeria
In the period 1950–1960 a greater concern about Muslim sensibilities in northern Nigeria and consciousness among Muslims in the southwest (Yoruba land) was on the increase. The question of how this...
doi.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Check out the recent article 'Nasser’s Islamic Propaganda and British Decolonisation Policy in Northern Nigeria' by Ismail Misbahu: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
See the recent book review by Pierluigi Bolioli of 'Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia' by Jayne Persian, Routledge, 2024: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
See the recent book review by Pierluigi Bolioli of 'Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia' by Jayne Persian, Routledge, 2024: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Check out the recent article 'Disarming the Resistance: Police Collecting of Indigenous Australian Cultural Property for Museums' by Gareth Knapman, Paul Turnbull, Cressida Fforde & Jocelyn S. Bardot: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Disarming the Resistance: Police Collecting of Indigenous Australian Cultural Property for Museums
This article examines the history, legality and modern implications of police collecting of Indigenous Ancestral Remains and cultural property, and the role of museums and governments in encouragin...
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Check out the recent article 'Disarming the Resistance: Police Collecting of Indigenous Australian Cultural Property for Museums' by Gareth Knapman, Paul Turnbull, Cressida Fforde & Jocelyn S. Bardot: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Have a read of the recent article 'Baron de Thierry's British Emigration Schemes in Transimperial Context: New Evidence about Proposals to Settle New Zealand in the 1820s', by Spencer Scoular: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Baron de Thierry's British Emigration Schemes in Transimperial Context: New Evidence about Proposals to Settle New Zealand in the 1820s
Charles Baron de Thierry was a British-educated Anglo-French adventurer whose godfather was the King of France. In 1820, he was conned by a visiting British missionary who promised him about four m...
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Have a read of the recent article 'Baron de Thierry's British Emigration Schemes in Transimperial Context: New Evidence about Proposals to Settle New Zealand in the 1820s', by Spencer Scoular: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Check out the recent article 'The Unexpected Friend: Anglo-Rwandan Relations from the Civil War to the Commonwealth (1990–2009)' by Paolo Perri: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
The Unexpected Friend: Anglo-Rwandan Relations from the Civil War to the Commonwealth (1990–2009)
The article traces the evolution of Anglo-Rwandan relations from the outbreak of civil war in 1990 to Rwanda’s entry into the Commonwealth in 2009. Drawing on recently declassified British diplomat...
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Check out the recent article 'The Unexpected Friend: Anglo-Rwandan Relations from the Civil War to the Commonwealth (1990–2009)' by Paolo Perri: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
See the latest #OpenAccess current debate 'Late Colonial Unreason' by Bill Schwarz: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Late Colonial Unreason
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
See the latest #OpenAccess current debate 'Late Colonial Unreason' by Bill Schwarz: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay is now out! In "Late Colonial Unreason" Bill Schwarz reflects on the continuities of colonialism in the present. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Late Colonial Unreason
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay is now out! In "Late Colonial Unreason" Bill Schwarz reflects on the continuities of colonialism in the present. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Have a read of the recent book review by Daniella McCahey of 'An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism' by Edward J. Gillin, Oxford University Press, 2024: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Have a read of the recent book review by Daniella McCahey of 'An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism' by Edward J. Gillin, Oxford University Press, 2024: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
on the transgression of the civilian–combatant divide: 'colonial genocide is not a reactive counterpart to anticolonial indistinction but a structural potential of colonial domination, while anticolonial indistinction represents a liberatory ethos challenging the colonial order of violence' PERUGINI
Check out the recent #OpenAccess current debate 'Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law' by Nicola Perugini: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law
Amid Israel's war of annihilation in Gaza, which began in 2023, this article interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. By indistinction, I refer to the transgression...
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
on the transgression of the civilian–combatant divide: 'colonial genocide is not a reactive counterpart to anticolonial indistinction but a structural potential of colonial domination, while anticolonial indistinction represents a liberatory ethos challenging the colonial order of violence' PERUGINI
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
I had the privilege of speaking to Points Media 棱角 about the 88,000 colonial-era Hong Kong Government files that remain withheld by the UK Government points-media.com/%e9%a6%99%e6...
Based on my recent paper published open access in @jich.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Based on my recent paper published open access in @jich.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0308...
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I had the privilege of speaking to Points Media 棱角 about the 88,000 colonial-era Hong Kong Government files that remain withheld by the UK Government points-media.com/%e9%a6%99%e6...
Based on my recent paper published open access in @jich.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Based on my recent paper published open access in @jich.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
"Persian forces readers to confront the uneasy coexistence of humanitarianism and hypocrisy in Australia’s post-war nation-building."
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"Persian forces readers to confront the uneasy coexistence of humanitarianism and hypocrisy in Australia’s post-war nation-building."
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Check out the recent #OpenAccess current debate 'Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law' by Nicola Perugini: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law
Amid Israel's war of annihilation in Gaza, which began in 2023, this article interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. By indistinction, I refer to the transgression...
doi.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Check out the recent #OpenAccess current debate 'Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law' by Nicola Perugini: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Recently published & #OpenAccess, check out 'Central Banking on Independence: The Birth of the National Bank of Libya' by Maddalena Zaglio: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Central Banking on Independence: The Birth of the National Bank of Libya
The historiography of independent Libya often portrays King Idris’ reign (1951–1969) as a puppet state heavily reliant on foreign aid. Drawing on records from the Bank of England and the UK Nationa...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Recently published & #OpenAccess, check out 'Central Banking on Independence: The Birth of the National Bank of Libya' by Maddalena Zaglio: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Check out the recent article, 'From Neglect to Compromise: The McMahon Line and the Dilemmas of British Policy towards Tibet, 1914–1947' by Zhaodong Wang: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
From Neglect to Compromise: The McMahon Line and the Dilemmas of British Policy towards Tibet, 1914–1947
Existing literature on the McMahon Line has largely focused on its legal foundations or on Anglo-Chinese disputes. Relatively little attention has been paid to the contradictions inherent in Britai...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Check out the recent article, 'From Neglect to Compromise: The McMahon Line and the Dilemmas of British Policy towards Tibet, 1914–1947' by Zhaodong Wang: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Latest from me on the Royal #Irish Constabulary commemoration fiasco a few years ago - thanks to everyone at @jich.bsky.social for their assistance.
#OpenAccess and recently published! Check out: 'Revisionism 2.0: The Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration Controversy of 2020' by Shaun McDaid: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Revisionism 2.0: The Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration Controversy of 2020
This article explores the Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration controversy of 2020. It argues that the Irish government’s attempts to separate the ‘good’ (Irish) recruits from ‘bad’ (British) rec...
doi.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Latest from me on the Royal #Irish Constabulary commemoration fiasco a few years ago - thanks to everyone at @jich.bsky.social for their assistance.
See the recent essay '‘Neutral in Matters of Party Politics’?: The Uneasy Place of The Mormon Church within Commonwealth Politics' by Brenton Griffin: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
‘Neutral in Matters of Party Politics’?: The Uneasy Place of The Mormon Church within Commonwealth Politics
This current debate historicises and scrutinises the claim of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, in regards to its stance of ‘political neutr...
doi.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
See the recent essay '‘Neutral in Matters of Party Politics’?: The Uneasy Place of The Mormon Church within Commonwealth Politics' by Brenton Griffin: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
#OpenAccess and recently published! Check out: 'Revisionism 2.0: The Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration Controversy of 2020' by Shaun McDaid: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Revisionism 2.0: The Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration Controversy of 2020
This article explores the Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration controversy of 2020. It argues that the Irish government’s attempts to separate the ‘good’ (Irish) recruits from ‘bad’ (British) rec...
doi.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#OpenAccess and recently published! Check out: 'Revisionism 2.0: The Royal Irish Constabulary Commemoration Controversy of 2020' by Shaun McDaid: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Hong Kong diaspora communities are inhibited in accessing their city’s colonial history, I argue in my blog post for @activehist.bsky.social activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Hong Kong diaspora communities are inhibited in accessing their city’s colonial history, I argue in my blog post for @activehist.bsky.social activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Based on my paper in @jich.bsky.social (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
In our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled "Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law", Nicola Perugini interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law
Amid Israel's war of annihilation in Gaza, which began in 2023, this article interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. By indistinction, I refer to the transgression...
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
In our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled "Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law", Nicola Perugini interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
New advance access book review published in @jich.bsky.social
@farsouthhistory.bsky.social reviews 'An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism' by Edward J. Gillin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@farsouthhistory.bsky.social reviews 'An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism' by Edward J. Gillin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
New advance access book review published in @jich.bsky.social
@farsouthhistory.bsky.social reviews 'An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism' by Edward J. Gillin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@farsouthhistory.bsky.social reviews 'An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism' by Edward J. Gillin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
See Ciarán McKillop-O'Shea's recent book review of 'The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission' by Cormac Moore, (Irish Academic Press, 2025): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
See Ciarán McKillop-O'Shea's recent book review of 'The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission' by Cormac Moore, (Irish Academic Press, 2025): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
See the recent book review by Joe Redmayne of 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century' by Ravi Ahuja (Verso, 2024): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
See the recent book review by Joe Redmayne of 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century' by Ravi Ahuja (Verso, 2024): doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
New book review published in @jich.bsky.social
Ciarán McKillop-O’Shea reviews “The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission” by Cormac Moore
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ciarán McKillop-O’Shea reviews “The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission” by Cormac Moore
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
New book review published in @jich.bsky.social
Ciarán McKillop-O’Shea reviews “The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission” by Cormac Moore
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ciarán McKillop-O’Shea reviews “The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission” by Cormac Moore
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! In 'Neutral in Matters of Party Politics'? Brenton Griffin explores the role of the Mormon Church in Commonwealth politics. @jich.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Neutral in Matters of Party Politics’?: The Uneasy Place of The Mormon Church within Commonwealth Politics
This current debate historicises and scrutinises the claim of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, in regards to its stance of ‘political neutr...
www.tandfonline.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! In 'Neutral in Matters of Party Politics'? Brenton Griffin explores the role of the Mormon Church in Commonwealth politics. @jich.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....