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.
Opinion – Britain’s education system must break its silence
TW: Racism
During the six months I spent in Australia in Year 9 I learnt more about the history of imperialism, the atrocities committed...
1000s attended ‘Uncomfortable Oxford’ history events in 2019
‘Uncomfortable Oxford’, a project encouraging awareness of Oxford’s ‘legacies of inequality and imperialism’, has experienced rapid growth since its creation in 2018.
Almost 3000...
Gin and tonic’s history might leave you with a bitter taste
Colonialism, empire and disease: this tasty tipple has an interesting story
May I Borrow The Tiger Please?
The history of Tipu Sultan’s Tiger is the history of imperialistic acquisition
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