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12 mar 2013 · Although the British were not responsible for all of the events directly, their interference in others’ problems was often just as destructive. Here are ten ways the British Empire ruined the world: 10.
28 mar 2022 · Britain is rarely seen as among the worst offenders, given a reputation for decency that the Harvard historian Caroline Elkins has spent more than two decades trying to undermine.
A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism
26 paź 2020 · Misremembering the British Empire. How did the British become so blinkered about their nation’s imperial history? By Maya Jasanoff. October 26, 2020. The records of Britain’s imperial past have...
11 lip 2022 · By by 1920, the British Empire covered 24% of the Earth's land mass. Historian Caroline Elkins says British rulers portrayed themselves as benevolent, but used systematic violence to maintain...
25 sty 2024 · Between 1838 and 1880, it is estimated that British imperial conflicts in Afghanistan, China, India and South Africa caused more than a million deaths. Nor is this just a story of the devastation...
29 paź 2020 · The records of Britain’s imperial past have been distorted or destroyed. 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 trafficked across the Atlantic.
