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Britain and the commonwealth: confronting the past-imagining the future / Murphy, Philip

Murphy, Philip	Journal Article
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2011.

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This is an extended version of Philip Murphy's inaugural lecture as director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, delivered on 23 February 2011. It traces the relationship of the UK with the wider Commonwealth over 40 years, paying particular attention to the rhetoric of governments and opposition parties from Wilson and Heath to Cameron. It examines the reasons for the Commonwealth being relegated to a peripheral role in British foreign policy, especially European preoccupations and the issues of Rhodesia and South Africa. It argues that the Commonwealth remains of considerable practical and enormous symbolic importance to the UK. The British government should engage with the Commonwealth more than it has done in the recent past and the Commonwealth should be both open to and critical of its imperial past.

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Commonwealth ; South Africa ; Rhodesia ; British Government ; Commonwealth Effect

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ID: 108626

British secret intelligence service, 1909-1949 / Hughes, R Gerald; Murphy, Philip; Davies, Philip H J

Hughes, R Gerald	Journal Article
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2011.

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Intelligence Service ; Britain ; Britain Intelligence Service

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ID: 084250

Independence Day and the Crown / Murphy, Philip

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Publication	2008.
Summary/Abstract	The role of members of the royal family at independence ceremonies deserves more attention. There was a widely accepted hierarchy of royals. The aspirations of new states, the fears and concerns of the Palace and the Colonial Office and gender issues all affected decisions and arrangements. This study reinforces David Cannadine's ornamentalist view of empire

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Independence day ; Royal family ; Ornamentalism

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