The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.
NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great ...
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. By Sathnam Sanghera. Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, ...
‘Winnie” Recharts His Hectic Course as Suzerain of the Seas Now on the outside of politics, Winston Churchill gives full vent to his literary genius. His book,* except for some too technical pages, is ...
One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
Stop Thief! Why the British Museum Failed To Protect Its Collection, and How Decolonization Can Help
Stop Thief! Am I referring to the curator who allegedly stole a staggering 2,000 treasures from the British Museum collection over the last 30 years or the monumentally privileged white men who filled ...
Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ”Springville,” is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed ...
The Christmas pudding, a legacy of the British Empire, is enjoyed around the world -- including in former British colonies. esp_imaging/iStock via Getty Images Plus As an American living in Britain in ...
The British Empire, at its height, was one of the largest and most powerful empires in history, controlling vast territories and people across the globe. During its colonial rule, many cultural ...
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