Alan, our project leader, has been writing about our project on the blog of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies, a new(ish) initiative of the School of Advanced Studies at the University of London. Led by Professor Andrew Hussey, the CPS…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Security, Economy and Education in Mauritius, August 1857
In August 1857, the British Empire was in the midst of an imperial crisis. The Indian Uprising caused panic across the governmental system, as it threw the vulnerability of British colonialism into stark relief. This was no more evident than…
New Workshop Now Open for Registration: ‘Snapshots of Empire: Governing a Diverse Empire Everywhere and All at Once’
Friday 2 September, 2016 Global Studies Resource Centre (Arts C175), School of Global Studies, Arts Road, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9SJ A one day workshop arising out of the Leverhulme Trust funded ‘Snapshots of Empire’ project. Discussion will focus…
Posted in Call for Papers, Public Engagement
Under Pressure: steamships, global power and communications, and the East India Company — Part 2
Infrastructure, engineering, incidents and accidents In the last blog, I discussed how steam navigation promised to change the East India Company’s ways of operating – its trade and communicational networks, its geostrategic presence, and its procedures of government and administration…
Under Pressure: steamships, global power and communications, and the East India Company — Part 1
One of the advantages of what we’re doing on this project is that we get to see how large-scale shifts in colonial governmentality played out in the daily business of the offices at the nominal centre of empire. In the…
Where was Imperial Power?
Firstly, thank you to everyone who attended our seminar at Oxford this past Friday on “Snapshots of Empire: Imperial governance everywhere and all at once.” It was great to see so many people so engaged with the work we are…
Posted in Public Engagement
Global and Imperial History Seminar, Oxford
All three members of the Snapshots of Empire team – Professor Alan Lester, Dr. Kate Boehme, and Dr. Peter Mitchell – will be appearing THIS Friday at the Global and Imperial History Seminar at the University of Oxford. The panel…
Posted in Public Engagement
Time to Throw Out the Balance Sheet
A bit of a departure from our standard project blog, this essay responds to the latest rehashing of the British Empire in the media. The Rhodes statue debate and a YouGov poll have both made the British Empire topical again.…
Posted in Legacies of Empire
Inside the Archives
The Colonial Office and India Office Records both hold evidence of centuries of imperial administrative practice. Yet, in both their structure and content they differ considerably. Three months into our research, these differences are becoming ever more apparent. This month…
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