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British Empire

Britain’s fixation with Suez Canal was as much about controlling Egypt as it was about global trade

Jonathan Parry, The Conversation
· Apr 03, 2021 · 07:30 pm
Before Suez Canal, the British had considered another trade route to Asia

Matt Griffin
· Apr 01, 2021 · 07:30 pm
This ambitious history of the British Empire touches on everything from the Mahabharata to Marx

Kim A Wagner
· Feb 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm
Politics, revelry and massacres: East India Company logs reveal what happened on trade ships

Susannah Gillard
· May 23, 2020 · 01:30 pm
Did Indigenous Canadians help Indian immigrants aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914?

Ali Kazimi, The Conversation
· Sep 21, 2019 · 09:30 pm
New soil study confirms 1943 Bengal famine was caused by Winston Churchill’s policies, not drought

Scroll Staff
· Mar 30, 2019 · 02:50 pm
UN has called out shameful British colonialism by urging it to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius

Miriam Bak McKenna, The Conversation
· Mar 06, 2019 · 09:30 pm
Why England should stop whitewashing its colonial past in its school history curriculum

Deana Heath, The Conversation
· Nov 07, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Photos: When a British intelligence officer documented his 1906 trip to the Persian Gulf and Iraq

Louis Allday
· Oct 24, 2018 · 09:30 pm
The 1915 Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure – but it sparked a revolution

Haroon Khalid
· Apr 27, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Does the Commonwealth still mean anything significant to Great Britain (or to its member countries)?

Philip Murphy
· Apr 20, 2018 · 08:30 am
Photos: A collection shows rare maps that helped colonising countries understand India’s geography

Maria Thomas, qz.com
· Apr 13, 2018 · 06:30 pm
‘Let no-one grudge...to pay tax’: Why did a Bengali boy sing praises of Income Tax in British India?

Lesley Shapland
· Apr 09, 2018 · 01:30 pm
British empire’s hidden workings in India and Iran revealed in remarkable film footage

Jonathan Westaway, The Conversation
· Feb 06, 2018 · 08:30 pm
Empire of ethics: Studying UK’s colonial past through an ethical lens legitimises a slippery slope

Arjun Appadurai
· Jan 26, 2018 · 12:30 pm
How the prince of Surat convinced England to give him justice against the East India Company

Moin Mir
· Jan 03, 2018 · 08:30 am
Why India should not bother to ask Britain to apologise for Jallianwalla Bagh

Anjali Mody
· Dec 10, 2017 · 05:30 pm
Video: The tribal leader who spooked the British empire before Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh

Shone Satheesh
· Nov 15, 2017 · 05:41 pm
Tipu Jayanti debate: Akbar is the hero India should really celebrate

Girish Shahane
· Oct 25, 2017 · 08:00 am
As the US debates Confederate statues, a powerful lesson from Delhi – let them rot

J Daniel Elam
· Oct 17, 2017 · 08:00 am