Her research has taken her from the city of Calcutta to the worlds of Joseph Conrad; she interests herself in subjects as varied as the workings of the British Empire and our obsession with ancestry.

Why is the British Empire the only one to be subject to all this opprobrium, presumably because the dissenters know that they can get away with it in this country, free speech and all that and ...

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Under Gil Kenan’s workmanlike direction – the screenplay is by him and Jason Reitman, the son of the first film’s director, Ivan Reitman, who died in 2022 and to whom “Frozen Empire” is ...

By doing so, it looks as if we are going to continue to see a very erratic market. The British pound initially fell during the trading session on Monday but turned around to show signs of life yet ...

Britain must end its fetish for the empire. By Sathnam Sanghera In my new book, Empireworld, a work of more than 100,000 words, I argue that there is a catastrophic gap between what British people ...

The exploitation of Burma by the British Empire. This article was written by an Englishman E.A. Blair in 1929 and archived by the Orwell Foundation. Following the recent troubles in India, we have ...

Cambridge University Press, 1959, 948 pp. This authoritative third volume, covering the years 1870-1919, completes the series of general histories of British overseas expansion and imperial policy.