Like the history of so many wars, the history of the Boer War has been written by the losers...
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Clement Attlee: Apostle of Empire?
The post-war Labour government began British decolonisation. But Attlee and his ministers acted out...
Digging Anthropology Out of the Decolonization Movement
Anthropology is under attack from the decolonisation movement. This undermines its very credibility...
Sir Cyril Radcliffe’s Departure from India in 1947
It has often been held that Sir Cyril Radcliffe, who drew the borders of India and Pakistan in...
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...
Will nobody defend Oliver Cromwell?
There are many reasons to dislike the regicidal usurper but not those levelled against him in the...
Scottish and Irish Governors of India
An letter to the editors of how Scottish Viceroys of India like Lord Linlithgow, alongside Irish...
Born of War: Preserving the Voices of those who Served
Born of War is a new film in production that tells the personal stories of those who served in...
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...
he Fate of the Dancing Girl: Partition, Restitution, and the...
The bronze figurine of the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo Daro was made 4500 years ago by the Indus Valley...
