Britain Can No Longer Hide Behind the Myth That Its Empire Was Benign

The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.
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The Crown Jewels have been symbols of Britain's dark colonial past. The now-independent nations want them back.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla wore many of the royal family's Crown Jewels at their coronation. Critics say the some of the large gems represent the British empire's dark history of imperialism.
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The complicated history of Queen Victoria's colonial godchildren, who became symbols of assimilation and civilization in the British Empire

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queen Victoria had several wards and godchildren from British colonies, including Africa and India. The godchildren were treated ...
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The British Empire was a millstone around our neck, not an asset

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lieutenant Roberts Saving His Battery Under the Walls of Delhi (1901) - Print Collector The rotting Old Republican Palace in ...
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The British Empire before the American Revolution

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...
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The complicated history of the British commonwealth

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Matthew J. Smith, director of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London, about the commonwealth's complicated history. The ...
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America Is in Denial About Its British Imperialist Origins

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...
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The End of the British Empire

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997. New York: Vintage. Elkins, Caroline. 2022. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Sanghera, Sathnam.
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The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

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 ...
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How British Imperial History Does (and Doesn’t) Shape the Sino-Indian Border Dispute

Kyle J. Gardner, The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) When the first Englishman visited Leh, the capital of Ladakh ...