• DOI:10.1080/03086534.2010.503398
Corpus ID: 159761581

‘A Sordid Tussle on the Strand’: Rhodesia House during the UDI Rebellion (1965–80)

@article{Brownell2010AST,
  title={‘A Sordid Tussle on the Strand’: Rhodesia House during the UDI Rebellion (1965–80)},
  author={Josiah Brownell},
  journal={The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History},
  year={2010},
  volume={38},
  pages={471 - 499}
}

Josiah Brownell

Published 2010

History

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

Under the 1961 constitution, Rhodesia floated in a constitutional netherworld somewhere between a dominion and a colony. As Rhodesia's primary institutional link to the mother country, it was in the struggles over the status of their High Commission, Rhodesia House, that larger constitutional issues would be contested in microcosm. After UDI, Britain's awkward and unpopular policies towards the illegal regime in Africa were reflected in its policies regarding the London building and its… CONTINUE READING

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