There are many reasons to dislike the regicidal usurper but not those levelled against him in the...
Author - Robert Tombs
Scots are finally waking up to their role in the British Empire
From soldiers to opium traders, no group was more enthusiastic about building an overseas dominion...
The Royal Navy made Britain impossible to invade. Now we face a...
Naval Weakness invites aggression, and we have never been so vulnerable since the Dutch fleet...
Cambridge loves kings – If they are Nigerian
The University is sending back 116 Benin bronzes to the descendant of a slave-trading monarch
It’s Britain’s abolitionism, not its slave trading past, that is...
Three hundred years ago slavery was ubiquitous across the world, a feature of almost every...
Even on Remembrance Sunday the BBC insults our Glorious Dead
Robert Tombs takes issue with the BBC for comments on Remembrance Sunday 2025 that Britain treated...
A critical commentary on Church Commissioners’ historic links to...
Did the Church invest in slavery? A new review shows key historical errors behind the Church of...
If ‘wokeness’ is over, can someone tell the Fitzwilliam Museum?
The new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, entitled 'Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution...
The French navy is full of ships named after men who beat us...
The Royal Navy, which has very few ships to name these days, has decided that to call its new...
If Oxfam is right about Empire, then where is my $1 million?
A new report from Oxfam calculates that Britain owes astronomical sums to India. Robert Tombs does...
