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H. T. Alexander: A British Officer Serving in a Newly Independent African Country
2024 thus marks the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 60th anniversary. In those intervening years we have gathered the personal papers of over 800 senior defence personnel, and we thought this birthday year was a great opportunity to showcase just some of the items from the collection. This blog spotlights The Archive of Major-General Henry Templer Alexander (1911-1977) from this collection.
Legal narratives of the invasion of Grenada, 1983
This blog post was written as a companion to the exhibition in the IALS Library, ‘Legal colonialism and constitutional roads to independence: Jamaica and Grenada’. This was on display until 29th November 2024.
Reclaiming a Language: Contextualizing John Eliot’s Genesis
This blog focuses on how both The Eliot Genesis and Bible were used by European colonisers to enact what Indigenous theologian Tink Tinker describes as a cultural genocide. It also highlights the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project.