Decolonisation

The organisation which would become the political arm of the Irish Republican Army was founded as a nationalist pressure group on November 28th, 1905.

David Anderson looks at the contentious issues raised as Kenya comes to terms with the colonial past.

On November 1st, 1954, an insurrection broke out in Algeria.

Harold Perkin discusses the role of the extraction and distribution of surplus production in historical change, from Ancient Egypt to the 21st century.

Today best known for its gambling industry, the rich cultural history of Europe’s last colonial toehold in China might be the key to its future. 

Dutch sovereignty was transferred to the United States of Indonesia on November 2nd, 1949.

J.E. Spence considers the interface between ideological and geopolitical factors in the struggle for supremacy in Southern Africa.

Jean Alphonse Bernard considers the two key provinces and how they became touchstones and then powderkegs in the nationalist aspirations of both sides.

Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 15th, 1847.

The contribution of the witnesses from the Battle of Algiers to the debate on contemporary history.