SIngapore Grip: the final book in JG Farrell’s Empire Trilogy.
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The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire.
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Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance.
Pride in Bangalore: therapies purporting to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality continue in parts of India.
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The suicide of a young woman who had been put through conversion therapy has sparked a backlash from India’s LGBTQ+ community.
Pub chain Greene King has apologised for its historic links to the slave trade.
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Decolonising is an attempt to reverse the legacy of inequality and racism left by colonialism.
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Reforming the business school is the next step in the radical revolution needed in higher education.
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La Nouvelle-Zélande aussi s'interroge sur le sort à réserver aux monuments et aux noms de lieux rendant hommage au passé colonial.
By the 17th century, wealthy Britons were already experiencing the delights of expensive sugar confections.
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The story of the growth of Britain’s sugar trade can tell us a lot about the development of capitalism and the slave trade.
Jubilation in London as Britain rolled out the barrel to celebrate victory in Europe.
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It was a great celebration, but not everyone was jubilant.
Joseph Banks portrait by Joshua Reynolds (circa 1771-1773).
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For celebrated botanist Joseph Banks, his voyage with James Cook was more about extending imperial power than simply discovery.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend the annual WellChild Awards in London in October 2019.
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If we’re ever to move past outmoded values of gender, race and class, we need to wish Prince Harry and Meghan Markle well — and challenge those who would prefer everything remains the same.
Maxim guns agins the Ndebele of Zimbabwe in 1893.
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The British Labour Party has pledged to conduct an audit of the impact of Britain’s colonial legacy.
Bonar Law, leader of the Conservative Party, addressing a crowd at Blehnheim Palace in 1912.
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The crisis of Conservatism of the early 20th century has some parallels for the party today.
A Zulu household, from an 1895 book called The Colony of Natal: An Official Illustrated Handbook and Railway Guide.
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A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
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Art, outreach and fieldwork can help reframe Britain’s imperial past, by re-humanising the people subjected to anthropological ‘colonial science’.
People participate in a candlelight vigil near the White House to protest violence against Sikhs in 2012.
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Sikh gurus adopted the turban, in part, to remind Sikhs that all humans are sovereign, royal and ultimately equal. But their attire can also lead to misunderstandings and at times, hate crimes.
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The Peterloo massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed on British soil, but across the empire there were many such acts.
Turkey on manoeuvres.
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Turkey and the EU are trading insults over the rights to exploit the huge gas reserves over the eastern Mediterranean island.
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The link between empire, inequality – and Brexit.
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This is a transcript of episode three of The Anthill podcast series India Tomorrow on Kashmir.
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The UK has been humiliated by a judgment that offers hope to other nations looking to unburden themselves from the legacy of imperialism.