Professor Stephen Constantine Professor Stephen Constantine, a graduate of Oxford University, taught at Lancaster University until his retirement as Emeritus Professor of Modern British History in 2010. His research has included studies of social and economic conditions in Britain and of British Empire and Commonwealth history, particularly of colonial development policy and of migration. His […]
Fintan O’Toole The Pleasures of Self-Pity Brexit is a post-colonial neurosis. There is a long tradition in British imperialism of dealing with the difficulties of colonisation by identifying oneself romantically with the colonised. Brexit is the ultimate twist on this tradition — it imagines Britain as an oppressed nation and wallows in the joys of […]
HOW ARTISTS HAVE DEPICTED IT OVER THE CENTURIES By Harry Fletcher I view the circus across the centuries, through the eyes of artists such as Seurat, Degas, Lautrec, Tissot, Sickert, Chagall, Hopper, Picasso, Leger, Calder and Cindy Sherman. Clowns, acrobats and trapeze artists were their most popular subjects. I explain how the artists became fascinated […]
Sir Graham Watson Born in Rothesay, Scotland, Sir Graham is a co-founder and Chairman of the Climate Parliament, a global network of legislators working to accelerate the transition to a lowcarbon economy. From 1994 to 2014 he represented South West England in the European Parliament, during which time he was elected Chairman of the Justice […]
12th – 14th October 2017 Currently in their fifth edition, the symposiums at the Garrison Library focus on issues that impact on Gibraltar and other like territories within a European and global framework. The topic this year has certainly been driven by the 2017 commemoration of the 50th anniversary since Gibraltar’s 1967 sovereignty referendum and […]
13th – 14th October 2016 Currently in our fourth year, the Symposiums at the Garrison Library focus on issues that impact on Gibraltar and other like territories within a European and global framework. The themes under discussion are broad although pertinent, and include areas such as self-determination; cultural and national identity; borders; colonialism and post-colonialism […]
22nd – 23rd October 2015 This year’s symposium at the Garrison Library sets out to engage with questions that relate to the Second World War and the impact this was to have on the redistribution of power and on subsequent global policies pertaining to human rights, self determination and decolonisation. These are topical issues given […]
Come down to the Gibraltar Garrison Library as from the 28th of September for our exhibition of Jacobo Azagury drawings and sketches (9:00am – 5:00pm). Wednesday the 28th of September also sees a day of talks delivered to Gibraltar art students by local and international artists (please call the Library on +200 77418 if this […]
Minister for Culture, Steven Linares, with project leaders, Dr Jennifer Ballantine Perera and Professor Andrew Canessa The Ministry of Culture is pleased to announce that Dr Andrew Canessa (University of Essex) and Dr Jennifer Ballantine Perera (Gibraltar Garrison Library) are recipients of a major award from the UK Economic and Social Research Council for their […]
18th – 30th June 2015 Morocco and Gibraltar have a long shared history. Col Thomas James in his Herculean Straits (1771), writes of these connections, describing the “hill of Gibraltar [as] the Mons Calpe of the Ancients” and commenting on the inscription on the Moorish castle as testament that the most ancient monuments of Gibraltar […]