The 1986 Commonwealth Games held in Edinburgh, boycotted by a large number of African, Asian and Caribbean states due to Thatcher’s refusal to support a sporting boycott of apartheid South Africa.
Recent Posts
- Interview with Sir John Major
- Witness Seminar – Britain in the Commonwealth: The 1997 Edinburgh Commonwealth heads of Government meeting
- Interview with Hon Alexander Downer
- Interview with Abdul Minty
- Interview with Billie Miller
- Interview with Kamalesh Sharma
- Interview with Dorienne Rowan-Campbell
- Witness Seminar Participants, March 2014
- Witness Seminar – The Commonwealth Secretariat, Economics and Development, and Global Politics
- Commonwealth Diplomacy and the End of Apartheid. Anthony Law Commonwealth Lecture by former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans