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There’s no future for a nation that hates its own history
Confidence is collapsing in our culture and our institutions. The fightback must start with...
The National Trust’s distortion of history at Dyrham Park
The National Trust's depiction of British domestic and colonial history are both found wanting in...
Late-Summer 2026 History Reclaimed newsletter
Our late-summer 2026 issue takes on British empire revisionism wherever it appears: the Scots who...
Cambridge and the Denial of Truth
The death of Jason Arday, the fantasist and plagiarist who became a professor at Cambridge...
Canada’s Residential Schools: The Globe and Mail Get it...
History Reclaimed has followed the story of the Canadian Residential Schools and their supposed...
Quakers and the Post-Colonialist Fallacy
The influence of the reparations movement has led to fallacious pronouncements on historic Quaker...
The Hundred Million That Never Was: How a Reparations Slogan Was...
The claim that colonialism killed 100 million Indians has become established fact for many. But is...
The Warrigal Creek Massacre, Victoria, Australia, 1843
A letter to the editor: Claims that the 1843 Warrigal Creek massacre was the worst in Australian...
Fables and Alternatives: the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
Like the history of so many wars, the history of the Boer War has been written by the losers...
Popular Posts
Colonialism did not cause the Indian famines
Accusations that Britain drained India of resources and starved Indians to death are nothing new in...
Was there anti-Irish racism in Britain in the postwar period?
The notorious sign “No Irish no blacks no dogs”, supposedly widespread in rented accommodation, has...
Did the British loot India?
The history of the British empire has become an ideological battle ground. The loudest voices have...
The Myth of New World Genocide
Jeff Fynn-Paul is a Lecturer in History at the University of Leiden. His research interests include...
Reviews
“Not Your Victim” by Marie Kawthar Daouda: Book...
Dr Mark Stocker reviews Not Your Victim by Marie Kawthar Daouda, an intelligent and courageous...
Institutions
Did slavery make Britain rich? – Decolonisation and...
Slavery has been common across all human civilisations as an institution. The dominant ‘decolonial’...
Empires
Clement Attlee: Apostle of Empire?
The post-war Labour government began British decolonisation. But Attlee and his ministers acted out...
Slavery
The Benin Bronzes: A reply to Sophia, Emily and Sarah, students...
Mike Wells, a longstanding commentator on the Benin Bronzes, discusses their history and the bogus...
People
Churchill wasn’t the villain of the Bengal Famine. Japan was.
A National Portrait Gallery installation claims he ‘wilfully’ inflicted mass starvation – this is a...
Ideas
Digging Anthropology Out of the Decolonization Movement
Anthropology is under attack from the decolonisation movement. This undermines its very credibility...
Racism
Churchill wasn’t the villain of the Bengal Famine. Japan was.
A National Portrait Gallery installation claims he ‘wilfully’ inflicted mass starvation – this is a...
Events
History Reclaimed Newsletter Summer 2026
Welcome to the History Reclaimed Summer 2026 newsletter. From debunking pre-Columbian population...
Museums, the Benin Bronzes and repatriation
Repatriation of Artefacts: A Recipe for Disaster
The Benin Bronzes are slated to return home to Nigeria. In their new home, they'll likely encounter...
Where are Nigeria’s Benin Bronzes?
Authorities in Nigeria have for years been demanding the repatriation of ‘Benin Bronzes’. But many...
Why is Britain making reparations to the heirs of slave owners?
Several major British institutions have announced their intention of giving valuable artefacts to...
Repatriation considered – A History Reclaimed podcast
Tiffany Jenkins is a writer, author and broadcaster. Her next book Strangers and Intimates: The...
An Open Letter to the Master of Jesus College, Cambridge
On 27 October, Jesus College held an elaborate ceremony to hand over a ‘Benin Bronze’ to its former...
Benin Bronzes: who has the moral right to decide?
HR has recently been contacted by the Restitution Study Group, speaking on behalf of descendants of...
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Why toppling statues is (almost always) wrong
Dr Mark Stocker is an art historian whose research is in late eighteenth to early-mid twentieth century art, particularly British and New Zealand art and especially sculpture, public monuments and numismatics (coins and medals)...
