Decolonization and Britain’s Attempt to Reform Imperial and Commonwealth History Education, 1955-1958

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The loss of prestige that Britain suffered as a result of World War II brought about an end to the hegemony of British history in the history curriculum of the Empire, although the immediate postwar history curriculum for Britain remained predominantly Anglo-centric. In early 1956 the British Commonwealth Relations Office and the Ministry of Education decided to hold a conference course attended by Commonwealth history professors and school teachers during the summer of 1957 to devise plans for British students to take more interest in Commonwealth history. However, the government discovered that the Royal Empire Society, the leading members of which were Commonwealth history experts whose advice the government needed, was planning to hold its own conference without government participation. In return for cooperating with the government’s plans, the Royal Empire Society demanded that the government’s conference course not be overseen by a rival body, the Imperial Institute, and that a ‘British Commonwealth Trust’ be established to oversee exchange programs between Britain and the Commonwealth. The Imperial Institute was subsequently dropped as the conference organizer, but the Royal Empire Society still pulled out of supporting the government’s conference course when no progress was made on the establishment of the British Commonwealth Trust. With no clear expert available to supervise the organizing and running of the conference, the government’s plans soon frizzled out and no further attempt to strengthen Commonwealth history education in British schools were made.

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