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Vernon Bogdanor: Iain Macleod and Decolonization

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Gresham College

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Partner:: Gresham College
Location:: Museum of London
London, England
Event Date:: 11.13.12
Speaker:: Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Tags:: Colonialism; Colonial History; History of Empire; British Empire; empire; British Government; British History; british politics; political history

Summary: Iain Macleod was, with Joseph Chamberlain, one of two great Colonial Secretaries of the 20^thcentury. In the early 1960s, he ensured the rapid ending of Britain's African empire. This allowed Britain to avoid the imperial traumas which afflicted France and Portugal. If the African ex-colonies choose to remain in the multi-racial Commonwealth, that in large part is due to Iain Macleod.
For download and transcript versions of this lecture, please visit the event's page on the Gresham College website: Iain Macleod and Decolonisation.

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Professor Vernon Bogdanor

Vernon Bogdanor CBE is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Law, current Visiting Gresham Professor of Political History, Research Professor at King's College London, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Prior to 2010, Professor Bogdanor Fellow of Brasenose College, is Professor of Government at Oxford University.

He has been an adviser to a number of governments, including those of the Czech Republic,

Hungary, Kosovo,

Israel

and

Slovakia. His books include The People and the Party System, Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution, Power and the People, and Devolution in the

United Kingdom. He is a frequent contributor to TV, radio and the press and is a sometime special advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities (1982-83), and the House of Commons Public Service Committee. Most recently he was awarded the Sir Isiaiah Berlin prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the Political Studies Association.