Our correspondent considers carefully the reasons why Home Office civil servants might have...
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Letter 2 of 3: Sla(v)es: A thought concerning the foremost...
Our correspondent responds to Marcus Rutherford, pointing to the etymology of the word ‘slave’ and...
Letter 1 of 3: Much Ado About Nothing
The Royal Navy's decision in 1914 to name one of its dreadnought battleships HMS Agincourt is...
Benin and Beyond
David Abulafia on whether the tide is turning on restitution
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...
On the William Jones memorial in University College, Oxford
Mark Stocker and Rohan Fernando add further evidence to contradict the 'anticolonialism' of...
The National Trust’s Colonial Countryside Project – Progress or...
The National Trust’s ‘Colonial Countryside Project’, supported by public funds, seeks to...
History at the Home Office
History Reclaimed has been pursuing details of a history course taught to civil servants in the...
The Centenary of the Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation...
2024 marked the centenary of the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation. In another of his...
Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair! Sir William Jones, John...
University College, Oxford has misrepresented a famous monument in their chapel to one of their...
