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SUMMARY:Britain’s Retreat from Empire: Politics, Power & Identity in the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:This event has sold out, email info@arundells.org ( mailto:info@arundells.org ) to be added to a waiting list for tickets.\nThe Wilson government’s 1967 announcement to withdraw its military commitments ‘East of Suez’ caused the Leader of Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition Ted Heath to vent with the utmost force. His complaint that Labour’s policy was one of ‘shameful scuttle’ echoed the vehemence that Churchill had once aimed at Attlee. Clearly, then, swords were crossed. In this talk, we consider some of the crises that marked British politics at the end of empire. We consider how Labour and the Conservatives clashed over this monumental change in the UK’s international role, and what this reveals about modern British politics and identity.\n\nProfessor Christopher Prior is Professor in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Southampton. He focuses on the history of Africa and of the British Empire in the modern period.\nHis publications include Exporting Empire: Africa, Colonial Officials and the Construction of the British Imperial State, c.1900–39 (2013), Edwardian England and the Idea of Racial Decline: An Empire’s Future (2013), and The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s: Encounters at the Edge of Empire (with Joe Higgins, 2025), and he is currently working on a book about British government policy in Africa in the 1960s, after the end of empire.\n\nDate: Tuesday 17 March 2026\nTime: Doors from 19.00 for 19.30 start\nWhere: Arundells, 59 The Close, Salisbury\nTickets: £16\nAll tickets are non refundable but you are very welcome to pass them on to friends or family if you are unable to attend.\n
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CATEGORIES:History,Talks
LOCATION:59 Cathedral Close, Salisbury
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