Anastasia Yiangou specializes in the history of British rule in Cyprus. She is the author of Cyprus in World War II: Politics and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean (2010) and the co-editor of The Greeks and the British in the Levant, 1800-1960s: Between Empires and Nations (2016).

Antigone Heraclidou is affiliated to the Open University of Cyprus where she lectures modern history of Cyprus. In May 2012, she was awarded a PhD in History from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. A revised version of her thesis was published in 2017 under the title Imperial Control in Cyprus: Education and Political Manipulation in the British Empire.

Introduction PART I: ROBERT HOLLAND AS HISTORIAN 1. Robert Holland's Empire, John Darwin [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] British Press and the Greek Resistance Against the Colonels, 1967-1974, Christos Christidis