‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’: Amitav Ghosh links the colonial desire for profit to neoliberal gluttony

Michiel Baas

· Nov 14, 2021 · 08:30 am

Tattoos were common in the ancient world. It is colonialism that stigmatised them

Allison Hawn, The Conversation

· Sep 23, 2021 · 11:30 pm

How colonialism has left countries poor and dependent on fossil fuels

Patrick Greiner, The Conversation

· Jun 30, 2021 · 11:30 pm

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

A hundred years ago, a fiery speech in Uttarakhand escalated the protests against forced labour

Shekhar Pathak

· Jan 12, 2021 · 07:30 am

What swaraj meant to Gandhi – and why the government wants to bury that vision of freedom

Apoorvanand

· Oct 03, 2020 · 07:30 am

In a 19th-century Burmese album, a story of revenge, a failed coup and a long-forgotten prince

Craig Campbell

· Aug 04, 2020 · 09:30 pm

In these Bhojpuri folk songs, forgotten tales of Indian indentured workers in British colonies

Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Aug 03, 2020 · 01:30 pm

In the 1820s, a British movement to quit sugar accelerated the end of slavery in the West Indies

Tom Zoellner, The Conversation

· Jul 15, 2020 · 09:30 pm

The mystery of an East India Company ship that was in two places at the same time

Matt Griffin

· Jun 29, 2020 · 07:30 pm

How Seringapatam inspired the name of an English official’s family for 260 years

Karen Stapley

· May 24, 2020 · 08:30 pm

Sounds of resistance: How the radio fuelled the revolution in colonial Angola

Marissa J Moorman, The Conversation

· Dec 05, 2019 · 11:30 pm

‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years on: Daniel Defoe’s unreliable narrative set up enduring colonial myths

Daniel Cook, The Conversation

· Nov 14, 2019 · 05:30 pm

William Dalrymple's new book shows corporate violence began in India with the East India Company

William Dalrymple

· Aug 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

Donald Trump’s offer to buy Greenland from Denmark is a throwback to colonial-era deals

Felicity Jensz, The Conversation

· Aug 23, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Why Rudyard Kipling fans can be happy: His works are not just about colonial stereotypes

Sue Walsh, The Conversation

· Aug 23, 2019 · 05:30 pm

A British merchant’s journey from Madras to England gives a glimpse into early days of colonialism

Anu Kumar

· Jul 24, 2019 · 11:30 am

British universities are looking into past ties with slavery and colonialism – but to what end?

Steven Greer, The Conversation

· May 14, 2019 · 09:30 pm

The colonial ‘naked Bushman’ stereotype is wrong – new research shows a complex practice of dressing

Vibeke Maria Viestad, The Conversation

· Mar 13, 2019 · 09:30 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