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War on the savannah : the military collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under the invasion of the British Empire, 1897-1903 / Risto Marjomaa

WAR ON THE SAVANNAH : THE MILITARY COLLAPSE OF THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE UNDER THE INVASION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 18971903 RISTO MARJOMAA ...
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Small Time Frame, Big Impact: The War That Only Lasted 38 Minutes

Lasting approximately 38 to 40 minutes, it holds the record as the shortest war in history. Blink, and it was practically ...
The New York Times

THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

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The New Yorker

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...
The Conversation

British Empire is still being whitewashed by the school curriculum – historian on why this must change

Deana Heath does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
Wall Street Journal

Books on the Big Business of the British Empire

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen. In ...
Newsweek

How the Queen’s Modern Commonwealth Compared to the Former British Empire

The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday has ended a 70-year reign that saw the fall of the British empire and the introduction of the Commonwealth of Nations.
NPR

April 13 Marks 100 Years Since One Of the Worst Massacres Of The British Empire

Today in Parliament, British Prime Minister Theresa May expressed regret but stopped short of an apology for one of the worst massacres of the British Empire. One hundred years ago this Saturday, a ...
NPR

Like The Empire Itself, The British Pound Is Not What It Used To Be

The British pound sterling is the oldest currency still in use in the world, dating to the time when Britain was little more than a collection of warring fiefdoms regularly plundered by Vikings. Since ...
The New Yorker

Misremembering the British Empire

On a cloud-spackled Sunday last June, protesters in Bristol, England, gathered at a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader on whose watch more than eighty thousand Africans were ...