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The Heads of Government Meetings are the only aspect of the Commonwealth to make headlines, apart from the Queen and the Games. To use the argot, they represent the ‘Commonwealth at the Summit’ and are known by the flat neologism ‘Chogm’. Generally forgotten is the fact that they are the world’s oldest and largest gatherings of Heads of Government. They are, indeed, the contemporary successors of the Colonial Conferences, which began with Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee in 1887, continued as Imperial Conferences between 1911 and 1937, and the Prime Ministers’ Meetings which ran from 1944 and 1969.
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See J. E. Kendle, The Colonial and Imperial Conferences 1887–1911: A Study in Imperial Organisation (London, 1967).
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McIntyre, W.D. (2001). At the Summit — Chogms. In: A Guide to the Contemporary Commonwealth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403900951_11
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