Opinion
Nigel Biggar: British Empire unfairly maligned
Nigel Biggar, CBE, is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and author of the bestselling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2024). He will be speaking at Yorkminster Park Church, Toronto as the guest of the ...
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Accidental Empire
British monarchs never set out to conquer North America with their armies, but by the mid-1700s, a century and a half of trade ... that the war’s end also heralded the end of the British Empire.
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GCSE History podcasts - The British Empire
Looking for ways to revise GCSE History? Try listening to these revision podcasts from Bitesize and BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds is where you can catch the latest music tracks, discover binge-worthy ...
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British historian's lecture on colonialism cancelled at B.C. theology school
But the British empire also chalked up some major humanitarian ... towards the end of the 1700s, began to agitate against slave trading and slavery, and that the British were amongst the first ...
Army conscription should be rolled out across ‘weak’ Europe in face of threat from Putin, says president of Latvia
LATVIA’S president has warned European countries to “absolutely” introduce conscription as he dubbed the continent as “weak” ...
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What’s Bangalore Palace Land Bill passed in Karnataka & why Mysuru royal family is opposing it
Even as Gowda was speaking in the national capital, the Upper House of Karnataka’s legislature passed a bill effectively ...
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan - Interesting and new takes, and much to debate
Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...
ROBERT TOMBS: How today's rapacious tech barons recall the private company so overmighty it even had TWICE as many soldiers as the British Army
The most dazzling oligarch in the world, 260 years ago, was probably Clive Of India, the spectacularly daring but grasping ...