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Text Content

 * About the Commonwealth
 * About the Project
   * Citation advice
   * Researchers
 * Interviews
   * Interviews (by name)
   * Interviews (by theme)
   * Interviews (by country discussed)
   * Witness Seminar – The heartbeat of a modern Commonwealth? The Commonwealth
     Secretariat 1965-2013
 * Blog
 * Other Resources
   * Bibliography
   * Commonwealth Chronology
   * Glossary
   * Key Commonwealth Documents
   * Videos and Podcasts


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 * About the Commonwealth
 * About the Project
   * Citation advice
   * Researchers
 * Interviews
   * Interviews (by name)
   * Interviews (by theme)
   * Interviews (by country discussed)
   * Witness Seminar – The heartbeat of a modern Commonwealth? The Commonwealth
     Secretariat 1965-2013
 * Blog
 * Other Resources
   * Bibliography
   * Commonwealth Chronology
   * Glossary
   * Key Commonwealth Documents
   * Videos and Podcasts




COMMONWEALTH ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

The aim of this AHRC funded project is to produce a unique digital research
resource on the oral history of the Commonwealth since 1965. When completed, it
will include at least 60 major interviews with leading figures in the recent
history of the organisation. The project will provide an essential research tool
for anyone investigating the history of the Commonwealth and will serve to
promote interest in and understanding of the organisation. These interviews
contain the views of a wide range of Commonwealth actors – politicians,
diplomats and civil servants – on the evolution of the Commonwealth and its
activities since the creation of the Commonwealth Secretariat in 1965.



Commonwealth Secretary-General & Mrs Arnold Smith and the Rt Hon Malcolm
MacDonald wearing Nigerian robes presented to them on behalf of the organisation
of Nigerian indigenous businessmen by the Chairman Alhaji Garba Nautan Hamza and
His wife. Credit: Commonwealth Secretariat ref ar073



HM Queen Elizabeth II with Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku, leaving
Westminster Abbey, London, after the annual Commonwealth Day observation
service. 1999 Source: Commonwealth Secretariat



They focus on key themes in the diplomacy of the Commonwealth: leadership;
mediation; bilateral and collaborative international pressure for racial
justice; developmental issues; democratization; the Commonwealth’s contribution
to the evolution of international norms and legal frameworks on debt
forgiveness, the law of the sea, election monitoring, nuclear non-proliferation.
The interviews also includes comment from those governments who were on the
receiving end of Commonwealth strictures (Britain, in the cases of Rhodesia and
South Africa; South Africa; Fiji, Nigeria, Pakistan and Zimbabwe;) as well as
observations from the wider Commonwealth ‘family’.

 

All interviews are available in electronic transcript form, searchable
by participant’s name, subject theme (e.g apartheid; development), country, or
by key word free text search in the search box (above right).  Most are also
available in audio  form (though as the syntax of the transcripts has been
tidied for ease of comprehension the two do not always directly correlate).  In
certain cases, the transcripts have been edited and amended by the interviewee,
in accordance with copy right licence of the interviewee. As these amended
interviews may differ from the original recording, the audio version is not
available.

 

It should be noted that these views are those of the individuals themselves, and
should not be seen as representative of those of the Institute of Commonwealth
Studies; nor does the ICS accept liability for any obscene or libellous material
that these interviews may contain.

Please note, the oral history interviews that form part of this project are
licensed for use under the creative commons attribution non-commercial no
derivatives license. In addition, some individual contributors have stipulated
that you must gain their consent in order to quote from their interviews, or
inform them when you do so. Where there are particular conditions of use, this
is stated clearly at the top of the transcript. Please note it is the
researcher’s individual responsibility to gain this consent.

For more information on how you can use and cite these interviews, please follow
the link below:

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