This volume honours and celebrates the work of Robert Holland by bringing together 17 essays, all based on original research, with the focal theme of Cyprus. The essays explore British rule in Cyprus with a particular emphasis on Cyprus’ transition from a colony to an independent state. A number of contributions stretch chronologically beyond th

Introduction PART I: ROBERT HOLLAND AS HISTORIAN 1. Robert Holland’s Empire, John Darwin 2. The Historiography of Modern Cyprus and Robert Holland’s Place in it, Paschalis M. Kitromilides PART II: THEMES ON THE HISTORY OF COLONIAL CYPRUS 3. Society, Religion and Moral Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century Cyprus: Syllogos Orthodoxia and the 1907 Sunday Observance Law, Loizos Kapsalis 4. Unseen and Unrecognized: The Physical Legacy of the Second World War in Cyprus, Tim Reardon 5. ‘An Ideal to be Attained’: The 1946 Ten Year Development Plan for Cyprus, George Kazamias and Maria Panayiotou PART III: CYPRUS’S TRANSITION FROM EMPIRE 6. An Unsettled State: Majority Rule versus Federalism in Cyprus, 1957 -1964, Diana Markides 7. The Struggle for Recognition and Political Rights of the Small Ethnic and Religious Minorities at the End of British Colonial Rule in Cyprus, Hubert Faustmann 8. The Unitary Democratic Front of Reconstruction: EOKA’s Transformation From an Armed Movement to a Political Formation, Andreas Karyos 9. An Uncommon Alliance: the Democratic Union and AKEL During the 1959 Elections, Anastasia Yiangou 10. From British Colonial Government to Communal Chambers: A Change of the Guard in Cyprus Education, Antigone Heraclidou PART IV: THE POSTCOLONIAL EXPERIENCE TO THE PRESENT 11. Cyprus in Transition 1960-1974: The Impressive Economic Growth Of a Newly-Founded State and Its Impact on the Cyprus Problem, Marilena Varnava 12. Cyprus and International Organizations: Overcoming the Obstacles to Membership, Maria Mut Bosque 13. Cyprus in Crisis: The Ramifications of the 2013 Bank Bail-In, Michael Sarris and Simeon Matsis PART V: ASPECTS OF ANGLO-HELLENISM 14. The Substance and the Shadows: Reflections on British-Greek Relations Over Two Centuries, Michael Llewellyn-Smith 15. Searching for a New Balance: Attitudes of the Greek Political Elites towards Britain, 1950-1966, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou 16. The British Press and the Greek Resistance Against the Colonels, 1967-1974, Christos Christidis