Professor Sue Onslow became the Editor of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs and Policy Studies on January 1, 2025. She is a visiting professor at King’s College London. Sue has been researching and teaching in the field of twentieth century international history and international relations for the past thirty years.
A leading oral history practitioner, she taught at the LSE and KCL before moving to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, in 2012, initially as lead interviewer on ‘An Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth’, and subsequently as deputy director then director, until 2023. She has published widely on southern Africa, non-alignment, and the Commonwealth, and is currently writing a book on the Commonwealth in the Cold War era.
After teaching and lecturing at the London School of Economics between 1994-2010, followed by a stint at King’s College, she joined the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in 2012. At the ICWS she ran a major interviewing project with former Commonwealth leaders, diplomats, officials and journalists, which comprises an extraordinary library of knowledge on Commonwealth diplomacy and range of activity since 1965. These interviews are freely available at www.commonwealthoralhistories.org .
She has published extensively on British foreign policy and decolonisation, Southern African contemporary history (particularly South Africa and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe), and the Commonwealth’s involvement in the struggle against white minority regimes. Sue is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a member of the editorial board of Cold War History.
She joined The Round Table in 2013. She is a frequent contributor to BBC television programmes and radio commentary on the Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth Year Book. She also features in the forthcoming ITN major series on the Queen and Commonwealth.
The new Journal editorial team
Call for Papers 2025: People on the Move. The Commonwealth and management of international migration
