An Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth

目前的项目旨在传播英联邦研究所AHRC资助的英联邦口述历史项目的调查结果。后续拨款将资助一名职业生涯早期的学者全职担任项目干事，为期9个月。他们将与国际和平协会密切合作，负责组织传播活动，并与研究所在英国和马耳他的伙伴机构进行联络。他们还将制作相关的教育材料、报告，并将合作制作这部公共参与纪录片的剧本。项目官员还将与SAS通信办公室一起发挥积极作用，与记者联系，将COHP的材料与英联邦当前的事态发展或重大事件的周年纪念联系起来，以确保这些材料被纳入新闻报道。我们将在2015年10月的布鲁姆斯伯里节上介绍该项目，以吸引更多的非学术受众接受COHP的高层采访。在活动期间，我们将要求当地的布鲁姆斯伯里居民和来自英联邦国家的工人用视频记录下英联邦的历史联系是如何塑造他们自己的生活的。我们打算在公众参与纪录片中使用其中的一些镜头，这将是后续项目的一部分。一个关键活动将是11月底英联邦政府首脑会议(CHOGM)期间在马耳他举行的启动研讨会。将邀请出席会议的所有国家代表团和民间社会组织以及全球媒体派代表出席。该活动将由马耳他大学主办，将寻求从COHP面谈中为当代政策制定者确定可能的教训。这一活动将被拍摄下来，并作为播客放在COHP网站上。后续项目得到了英联邦议会协会英国分会的热情支持。COHP团队的成员已被邀请在11月份在伦敦举行的CPA的威斯敏斯特研讨会上在网站上发表演讲。CPA连接了英联邦各地的高级议员，包括议员、议长和议会官员。威斯敏斯特研讨会提供了另一个向真正的全球政策制定者传播项目成果的重要机会。该项目将利用该中心的姊妹机构--历史研究所的网络，为普通中等教育证书后中学和高等教育的历史教师组织一次培训研讨会，以展示如何将COHP网站用作教育资源。2016年1月，该研究所将为英联邦秘书处的工作人员举办一次下午的培训研讨会，介绍口述历史项目的主要成果。同月，它将与英联邦秘书处通信部合作，在马尔伯勒大厦举办一次研讨会，针对来自英联邦和非英联邦国家的伦敦外交界。项目官员将与英国外交部历史部和英联邦部的工作人员联系，就COHP的调查结果与当代英国外交政策的相关性编写一份简短的报告。这将在FCO的一个特别研讨会上提交给官员和部长们，外交部历史学家已经同意主办该研讨会。项目官员还将负责开发一部基于互联网的90分钟公共参与纪录片的脚本(与Impact Media Experts Ltd合作)。这将包括对COHP的PI、CI和首席研究员的采访，并将包括COHP记录和其他历史材料的摘录，以及在一些传播活动中拍摄的镜头。

The current project seeks to disseminate the findings of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies' AHRC-funded Commonwealth Oral History Project. The follow-on grant will fund an early-career academic to act as Project Officer on a full-time basis for 9 months. Working in close collaboration with the PI, they will have day-to-day responsibility for the organization of dissemination events and liaison with the Institute's partner bodies in the UK and in Malta. They will also produce the associated educational materials, reports, and will collaborate in producing the script for the public-engagement documentary. The project officer will also take a proactive role, in conjunction with the SAS Communications office, in liaising with journalists to link material from the COHP to current developments in the Commonwealth or anniversaries of major events in order to ensure that it feeds into news reporting.Engaging a broader non-academic audience with the 'high-level' interviews of the COHP, we will introduce the project at the Bloomsbury Festival in October 2015. During the event we will ask local Bloomsbury residents and workers from Commonwealth countries to record on video how the Commonwealth's historical links have shaped their own lives. We intend to use some of this footage in the public-engagement documentary which will be part of the follow-on project.A key event will be a launch seminar in Malta towards the end of November at the time of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). All national delegations and civil society organizations attending the meeting will be invited to send representatives, as will the global media. The event, which will be hosted by the University of Malta, will seek to identify possible lessons from the COHP interviews for contemporary policy-makers. The event will be filmed and included as a podcast on the COHP website.The follow-on project has the enthusiastic support of the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Members of the COHP team have been invited to offer a presentation on the website at the CPA's 'Westminster Workshop' in London in November. The CPA connects senior parliamentarians from across the Commonwealth including MPs speakers and parliamentary officials. The Westminster Workshop provides another important opportunity to disseminate the findings of the project to a genuinely global audience of policy-makers.The project will draw upon the networks of the ICwS's sister institution, the Institute of Historical Research to organize a training seminar for teachers of History at post-GCSE secondary and tertiary level to demonstrate how the COHP website can be used as an educational resource.In January 2016, the Institute will host an afternoon training seminar for staff at the Commonwealth Secretariat drawing out the key findings of the oral history project. The same month it will organize a seminar at Marlborough House, in collaboration with the communications department of the Commonwealth Secretariat, aimed at the London diplomatic community from both Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries.The project officer will liaise with staff from the FCO's Historical department and Commonwealth department to produce a short report on the relevance of the COHP findings for contemporary British foreign policy. This will be presented to officials and ministers at a special seminar at the FCO, which the Foreign Office Historians have already agreed to host.The project officer will also be responsible for developing the script for an internet-based 90-minute public-engagement documentary video (in partnership with Impact Media Specialists Ltd). This will feature interviews with the PI, CI and principal researcher of the COHP and will include excerpts from the COHP recordings and other historical materials, as well as footage filmed at some of the dissemination events.