Institute of Commonwealth Studies/OSPA Witness Seminars

The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is delighted to announce that the fourth Occasional Paper of the OSPA Research Project at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies has been published.
This Occasional Paper is a written transcript of the proceedings of the ICwS-OSPA Witness Seminar ‘The Westminster Model and Representative Government in the Era of Decolonisation’, which took place on the 25th May 2011. The transcript puts on permanent public record the primary evidence of OSPA members along with other views and experiences of British decolonisation in the 20th century. This publication is available from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies for £5.00.


To order this publication or for further information, please email Robert Kenyon: Robert.kenyon@sas.ac.uk or post a cheque (including your return address and a note on how many copies you are ordering) to:

Robert Kenyon
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU

Further published transcripts of later Witness Seminars will be made available in due course.


The next ICwS-OSPA Witness seminar is on Localisation of the Civil Service in Colonial Territories Before and Immediately After Independence and will take place on Thursday 25th October 2012.

Event Programme

To register and pay online for this event, please click here.

Registration form

Venue: The Senate Room (Senate House, First Floor)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

For further information, please contact ics@sas.ac.uk