“Guyana has already made reparations to the Amerindians. The country is also split between those who have Indian backgrounds, descendants of indentured labourers who kept their culture and maintained some capital and land, and the Africans whose descendants are today locked out of this new economy because of the lack of generational wealth. Africans died to build this country and have been excluded.”

#BritishEmpire #slavery #Guyana

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/19/how-william-gladstone-defended-his-fathers-role-in-slavery

An addition to our growing recommendations about US #ChinaTrade through the nineteenth century. Watch author Dael Norwood, Trading Freedom, on C-SPAN 3 Nov 2022, discuss the United States monetary, political, and psychological intertwining with China dating from the late 1700s. 1:02:11 with Mabel Rosenheck, director, Lancaster history education and exhibition planning. Silver & gold species, opium, letters of exchange #BritishEmpire
https://www.c-span.org/video/?523986-1/trading-freedom

"As the sole imperial power that remained a liberal democracy throughout the twentieth century, Britain claimed to be distinct from Europe’s colonial powers in its commitment to bringing rule of law, enlightened principles, and social progress to its colonies. Elkins contends that Britain’s use of systematic violence was no better than that of its rivals. The British were simply more skilled at hiding it."

@histodons #histodons #BritishEmpire
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence

@david_orr @FlixtonTom @OliverNoble @LJClements8

At the risk of being regarded as a troll (I'm not, just maybe over-fussy about loose thinking) - what makes you think #Scotland will "soon be free of the Westminster cesspit"?

I should add if I were a #Scot I'd be all for independence - the #union lost all purpose when #britishEmpire dissolved 70 years ago, so why is 1000 yr old nation like #Scotland shackled to an overbearing neighbour still?

But 51% of Scots have to want it

The strange case of Britain’s demise | Superb long read in The Economist covering #Trussenomics, the #BrexitShambles, delusions of the #BritishEmpire & the persistence of the #ClassSystem (& more)! https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/12/12/the-strange-case-of-britains-demise

On 16 December 1929, the His Majesty's Airship R100 conducted its first flight. Designed by Barnes Wallis, it later flew a successful trans-Atlantic journey and was photographed over the Canadian Bank of Commerce building in Toronto, which was the then-highest building in the British Empire. Wallis would later invent the bouncing bomb used by RAF Dambusters in 1943. #Trivia #BarnesWallis #HMAirshipR100 #TransAtlanticJourney #CanadianBankofCommerce #BritishEmpire #RAFDambusters #BouncingBomb

@justkatie808

totally agree - it is really nuts that #scotland is not independent - there is not even a #britishEmpire left to justify it......

RT @swgannon@twitter.com

'In many parts of the world, Britain was seen as the sort of adult that a lost child might approach'.😶

This is quite something, even by Hannan's standards ...
#BritishEmpire

Sunday Telegraph

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/swgannon/status/1599326471754948609

Great discussion here of the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica, the draconian response of Governor Edward Eyre, and the debate it provoked within Britain. #empire #histodons #imperialism #BritishEmpire https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dnlr

Quiz time: what links this photo to the Yangon-Mandalay railway in Myanmar?

Myanmar was once a province of British India which, from 1824 to 1948, and was known as British Burma.

The British first introduced a railway to Lower Burma in 1877 connecting Rangoon (Yangon) to Prome (Pyay) — 161 miles long. Subsequent developments included, ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=30775

#GreatAyton #LittleAyton #NorthYorkshire #RiverLeven #19th-century #BritishEmpire #StocktonForgeCo. #Victorian

This morning in “The Global 18th Century,” we read excerpts from *Letters of the late Ignatius Sancho, an African.” Students did a nice job of relating the letters to Gilroy’s account of Black Atlantic subjectivity, and they arrived—to my delight—at the topic of the coda to my book: the religious pluralism that structures Sancho’s vision of the afterlife. #c18 #BritishEmpire #Literature #BlackStudies

The questions over the queen’s role in Britain’s violent empire, explained by a historian

An expert on the British Empire explains "Her Majesty’s government" in the 20th century.

https://www.vox.com/world/2022/9/13/23349267/queen-elizabeth-british-empire-colonialism-violence

#UKHistory #QueenElizabethII #BritishEmpire #Colonialism #Violence #History

@histodons

I am really enjoying the "Empire" Podcast with William Dalrymple and Anita Anand. The story of Empire needs to be told with unvarnished honesty because its legacy is huge. Entertaining and informative...."Empire" should be on every school curriculum. Check it out and let me know what you think.
#BritishEmpire #colonialism #education

Don't allow the colonial media to sugar coat the crimes of the #BritishEmpire and its leaders. https://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-the-british-empire/

Don't allow the colonial media to sugar coat the crimes of the #BritishEmpire and its leaders. https://listverse.com/2014/02/04/10-evil-crimes-of-the-british-empire/