British empire
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A postcard from India: How a colonial worldview travelled the Empire and beyond
Omar Khan
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London too played a role when the British discussed India’s constitutional future with Gandhi
Stephen Legg, The Conversation
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Opinion: With the Queen’s death, the system of looting and genocide she represented should end too
Rafia Zakaria, Dawn.com
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How hostilities between the US and Britain affected the whale oil trade in the 19th century
Jessica Gregory
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‘A grand new palace of administration’: When Britain’s India Office got a new address in 1867
Margaret Makepeace
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‘I wish to remain in Bombay’: Testimony of liberated enslaved women in 19th century
Susannah Gillard
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Nom-dom status and other imperial policies that still influence life in Britain today
Hunter Harris, The Conversation
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Interview: Priya Satia on the ‘earnestly deliberate hypocrisy’ of the British Empire
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
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When the British asked the French to jail Madame Cama, the ‘mother of Indian revolution’
John O’Brien
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In the 1830s, children from orphan asylums in Madras were sent to New South Wales
Margaret Makepeace
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In 1830s Persia, ill-considered favours by a British official put his successor in a tight spot
Curstaidh Reid
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Britain’s fixation with Suez Canal was as much about controlling Egypt as it was about global trade
Jonathan Parry, The Conversation
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Before Suez Canal, the British had considered another trade route to Asia
Matt Griffin
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This ambitious history of the British Empire touches on everything from the Mahabharata to Marx
Kim A Wagner
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Politics, revelry and massacres: East India Company logs reveal what happened on trade ships
Susannah Gillard
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Did Indigenous Canadians help Indian immigrants aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914?
Ali Kazimi, The Conversation
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New soil study confirms 1943 Bengal famine was caused by Winston Churchill’s policies, not drought
Scroll Staff
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UN has called out shameful British colonialism by urging it to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Miriam Bak McKenna, The Conversation
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Why England should stop whitewashing its colonial past in its school history curriculum
Deana Heath, The Conversation
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Photos: When a British intelligence officer documented his 1906 trip to the Persian Gulf and Iraq
Louis Allday