Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe (Sathnam Sanghera, 2024): Review
Without confronting the wrongs of the past, the wrongs of the present will go on unabated.
May I Borrow The Tiger Please?
The history of Tipu Sultan’s Tiger is the history of imperialistic acquisition
The Pitt Rivers must face its dark past
Museum director Dr. Van Broekhoven agrees that a future must be found for the Pitt Rivers' colonial history
Balliol accused of bowing to “anti-colonial” pressure by moving Viceroy’s portrait
After taking it down for repairs, the college have not replaced the portrait of George Curzon to its hall.
The shameful truth about Churchill
Despite Winston Churchill's major role in one of the greatest famines in the history of mankind he is still unduly lauded by the British people
Oxford academics condemn “polemical and simplistic” research
The professor described their actions as "collective online bullying"
Oxford defends don accused of “whitewashing” the British empire
Nigel Biggar had argued we should “moderate our post-imperial guilt”
Decolonising history, or obscuring reality?
Efforts to decolonise Oxford's past can draw a fictitious veil over history
A flawed man with a revolutionary aim
Ethan Croft explores Philippe Girard's admirable Toussaint Louverture: a revolutionary life