Why have attacks on the British Empire recently become so frequent? What cause is being served by...
Author - Robert Tombs
Why is Britain making reparations to the heirs of slave owners?
Several major British institutions have announced their intention of giving valuable artefacts to...
Honouring a slave trader: the history of a decision
The Church of England, and other national institutions, express determination to root out or...
Netflix and the Raj
The vogue for facile anti-imperialism is not innocent. Apart from the distortions and slanders it...
Ukraine and 20th century history
The epic in Ukraine sheds light on the great tragedies of the last century. Reflection on past and...
The Canadian ‘genocide’: the origins and development of a Woke...
We have previously published material on the extraordinary claims of ‘genocide’ in Canada, based on...
“St Paul’s Cathedral celebrates a slaver”
This is the headline that you will not read on the BBC news site or the Cathedral’s own website...
Debating the British Empire
Debate is better than ‘cancellation’. After Professor Alan Lester and I appeared together on GB...
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...
Must Marx and Engels be cancelled?
If a hint of support for racism, imperial conquest and genocide are sufficient reason for...
