#FreeAccess to the end of September.

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. doi.org/10.1080/030865…

See the latest current debate article '‘Recorded Facts’ and ‘Different Stories’: A Response to Catharine Titi' by Mario Trabucco della Torretta: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Just released and #OpenAccess, check out '‘Forced Free Labour’: Connecting the Abolition of Slavery and Settler Colonisation in the Thought of Henry George Grey' by Jane Lydon: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

We are excited to announce that Volume 53 Issue 5 (2025) is now out! Check it out here: tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/53/5

See the latest book review written by Augustine Meaher on 'The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: World War II and the Path to Independence' by Rebecca Kenneison, Oxford, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Hot off the press! See our latest article 'Mobilising Xenophobia and Making Colonialism at the British Cape of Good Hope: Emigrants, Africans, and Repealers in the Politics of the 1849 Anti-Convict Movement' by Paddy O’Halloran: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Palestine is free to read, share and download until tomorrow, 30 September 2025. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History #FreeAccess

Just published! Check out 'Between Paternal Power and Prerogative: The Reformatory Origins of Protection in the British Empire (1788–1888)' by Matilde Cazzola: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. One colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Just released and #OpenAccess, have a read of the article 'Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park' by Matthew Hurst: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Check out the recent article 'Sailing for Crown and Curiosity: Prince Alfred’s Mediterranean Voyage' by Diren Çakilci: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Just published! Check out 'Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus: Rethinking the Evolution of Early Modern Anti-Slavery Sentiment' by Brian Smith: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Just released & #OpenAccess, check out 'Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa' by Rotem Giladi: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

For Imperial & Global, I compare how different colonial governments handled records towards the end of the Empire imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/10/16/des… Based on my paper, ‘Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park’, published open access in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Check out our latest article 'The Doctrine of Lapse in Nagpur: Decision-Making at the Periphery' by J. H. Song: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

Our latest current debate is out and #OpenAccess, see 'Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine' by John Munro: doi.org/10.1080/030865…

My piece for History Workshop reflects on the politics of forgetting, detailing how Hong Kong’s displaced colonial archives have exiled memory to the metropole historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decolon… Based on my paper in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (open access) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, check out 'Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?' by Sibylle Scheipers: doi.org/10.1080/030865…