The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

A peer-reviewed @tandfonline @tandfhss academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.

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JICH will now award two annual prizes: The Stockwell-Burroughs Prize for Best Article; & the Murphy-Howe Prize for Best Postgrad Article.
Winners will be announced each Feb & receive £200 in book vouchers from @tandfonline. Winning articles will become free access for 12 months.

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Hot off the press! See the article 'Decolonising Nigerian Historical Knowledge in a Globalised World: Diaspora Scholarship, Intellectual Infrastructure, and Contemporary African Agency' by Oladipupo Olugbodi: https://t.co/lwAHaUpLdn

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New book review published advance access.

Karl Ittmann reviews "Britain and Oman, c.1945-1980 The Silent Relationship" by Tancred Bradshaw (Springer/Palgrave Macmillan, 2025): https://t.co/tfLP2Z43j9
@PalgraveHistory @SpringerNature @Palgrave

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New book review published advance access.

Christopher Hill reviews "Contaminated Country: Nuclear colonialism and Aboriginal resistance in Australia" by Jessica Urwin (University of Washington Press, 2025): https://t.co/61K0xIV8xQ

@UWAPress

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It's here! The latest issue of JICH is out. Read Vol 54(3) now: https://t.co/SAiqpXLrRJ

[Shifting Sovereignties @ShiftingSovs]

New article by Louise Mary Thatcher on "Shipping Companies as Border Guards: Financial Penalties and Outsourced Immigration Control"
https://t.co/RbF9B3CabU
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The article 'Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park' by @MrMHurst published in JICH has been shortlisted for the @RoyalHistSoc Early Career Article Prize. Read the article here: https://t.co/cRwjqTesFm

Read about the prize here: https://t.co/ib7DuwlMq5

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New book review published advance access.

Tinni Goswami reviews "Public Health and The Pandemic in Colonial Bengal: An Analysis of The Spanish Influenza (1918–1920)" by Saumitra Basu (Routledge, 2026): https://t.co/G6WafyLzZL
@routledgebooks @RoutledgeHist @tandfonline

[Matthew Hurst @MrMHurst]

Honoured that my paper ‘Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park’ published in @JICHist has been nominated for the @RoyalHistSoc’s Early Career Article Prize.
Shortlist: https://t.co/ZfNT3XF1aC
Published open access: https://t.co/UiD0OpYibT

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Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, see the new article 'Intimate Relations and the Keonjhar Rebellion of 1891' by Paula Jane Byrne: https://t.co/lHlEDmbtdS

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New book review published advance access.

Armand Azra bin Azlira reviews "The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948" by David Lockwood (National University of Singapore Press, 2024): https://t.co/ExfBPYpbvg

@NUS_Press

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New book review published advance access.

Andrekos Varnava reviews ‘Law’s Politics: The Cyprus Troubles, 1960–1968’ by Nadia Kornioti (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025): https://t.co/Sjrjhn7lYa

@AndrekosVarnava @SpringerNature @Palgrave @PalgraveHistory @palmacpolitics @Palgrave_Law

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Hot off the press! See the latest article 'Imperial Persuasion: British War Propaganda and the Manufacture of Consent in Colonial Cyprus in World War I' by Nur Çetiner & Ceren Uçan: https://t.co/YR74LE6OTl

[Nur Çetiner @nrctnrr]

I am absolutely thrilled to share that our latest article, "Imperial Persuasion: British War Propaganda and the Manufacture of Consent in Colonial Cyprus in World War I," is now published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History!

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We would like to congratulate our inaugural prize winners for best articles of 2025- Alex Sutton (Stockwell-Burroughs Prize) and Anna Vangelatou (Murphy-Howe Postgraduate Prize).
Read the winning and commended articles here: https://t.co/oSPQO0qVGi

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New book review published advanced access.

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann reviews 'Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896–1951' by Henry Dee (Liverpool University Press, 2025): https://t.co/kUBHZ57AI0

@LivUniPress

[Prof Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA @AndrekosVarnava]

Massive effort from all the members of the JICH editorial team and the international board!

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JICH has returned to Q1 for 2025, according to latest @ScimagoJR rankings. Well done to our dedicated team, and looking forward to maintaining this through 2026 and beyond!
@AndrekosVarnava @yiannicart @evansmithhist @JFGjerso @tandfonline @tandfhss @RoutledgeHist

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New book review published advanced access.

Benjamin Harris reviews 'The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German, and Dutch Empires c.1890-1914' by Tom Menger (Cambridge Uni Press, 2025): https://t.co/1s02iCDuC1

@cambUP_History @CamWorldHistory