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History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

his research explores the use of History to enhance education in the field of ICT For Sustainability (ICT4S) in response to a challenge from the ICT4S 2023 conference. No previous studies were found in ICT4S but the literature on History and Educatio... Read More about History-enhanced ICT For Sustainability education: Learning together with Business Computing students.

A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter introduces the trope of the 1884-5 Berlin Conference as a 'carve-up' of Africa -- whether as a cake or a ham -- especially in the writing of Nigerian pan-Africanist and anti-colonialist Nnamdi Azikiwe. The chapter also discusses early pa... Read More about A ham carved by the sword of European imperialism: African views on the Berlin Conference from 1885 to the present.

Afterword (2022)
Book Chapter

As sites of British imperial state-making and resistance to colonial power, India and the United States have found themselves entangled since the late eighteenth century. To choose a paradigmatic moment, the dumping of East India Company tea into Bos... Read More about Afterword.

Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937 (2020)
Book Chapter

V.K. Krishna Menon always made people angry. When he left southern India in 1924, coming to England under the auspices of his mentor Annie Besant’s Theosophist and Indian Home Rule movement, Menon disappointed his father by not becoming a lawyer and... Read More about Two leagues, one front? The India league and the league against imperialism in the British left, 1927-1937.

‘Free and equal partners in your commonwealth’: The Atlantic charter and anticolonial delegations to London, 1941–3 (2017)
Journal Article

This article examines the efforts of two anticolonial politicians from the British Empire who used official visits to London and the rhetoric of the Atlantic Charter (14 August 1941) to advance their political careers and self-government for their te... Read More about ‘Free and equal partners in your commonwealth’: The Atlantic charter and anticolonial delegations to London, 1941–3.

A fascist triangle or a rotary wheel: The Sino-Japanese war and the gendered internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo (2017)
Book Chapter

In comparing the political discourses of two newspaper publishers, politically and geographically worlds apart, this chapter seeks to understand how gendered visions of the world directly influenced geopolitical analysis. The disparity in responses t... Read More about A fascist triangle or a rotary wheel: The Sino-Japanese war and the gendered internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo.