It is very off-putting hearing British people talk about the benefits of empire for those under its rule.

#Imperialism #BritishEmpire

_The Evening Post_, 26 Aug 1922:
BETTER THAN SUMS
…
The Minister [of Education] spoke to the children [of Miramar school] … of the greatness of the Empire and the high duty of its citizens. Referring to the saluting of the flag and the weekly singing of the National Anthem, he said that that was better than doing sums, geography, and history, and the ceremony was one they would love and remember.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19220826.2.122
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #Schools #Patriotism #BritishEmpire

The greatest #crime in #history

How #Britain took the richest #economy in the world and bled it dry
https://youtu.be/gIzQxNZfGM4

#India #imperialism #BritishEmpire #NeverForgive #NeverForget

Norma Jennings created a well written and interesting novel unveiling the brutality of imperialism in Ireland and the Caribbean Island of Jamaica.

#booktour #getredpr #letstalkbookspromo #normajennings #irishconnection #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #fiction #womenauthor #womenwriter #book
#bookstagram #bookstodon #booktok #bookbook #bookthreads #littlefreelibraries #bookdrop #bipoc #ireland #jamaica #slavery #britishempire
@bookstodon

_The Evening Post_, 15 Aug 1923:
AN EMPIRE UNITED
PROPOSAL FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
…
Great Britain and Dominions and Crown Colonies should enter the procession together in alphabetical order, or in order of seniority, each … with its own flag.… the world … would see the Motherland with her children solid and compact behind her, a real and living example of an Empire united in every sense of the word..…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230815.2.19
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #OlympicGames #BritishEmpire

#Spengler #OscarSpengler #TheDeclineOfTheWest

At the time it was written, he considered #Japan to a #colored nation and a future rival to the West. (Remember that Japan was ally of the #BritishEmpire before siding with the Germans in #WWII)

He also believed that twentieth century technologies would be used to oppress the downtrodden working masses - and that colored nations would one day become technological superpowers rivaling the West.

_The Evening Post_, 6 Aug 1923:
TWO DUTIES
BUT “THE EMPIRE FIRST”
MR. MASSEY’S PLANS
…
Mr. Massey referred to the coming Imperial Conference… “I hope … to leave at the end of this month, but … it depends on Parliament.… I had to think of my duty to the Dominion and to the Empire, and I propose to do both to the best of my ability.”
A Voice: “The Empire first.”
Mr. Massey: “The Empire first, I thoroughly agree.”
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230806.2.13
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #NewZealand #BritishEmpire

Started watching Diamonds Are Forever.

Ah yes, it’s a matter of national security for the British government to protect the Diamond cartels. That sounds about colonial.

Are we sure we aren’t the baddies?

#Bond #JamesBond #DiamondsAreForever #BritishEmpire #BloodDiamonds

"As a member of the African diaspora, the festival’s curation feels personal to me – as if it was designed for me. Yet I wonder how other members of the Global Majority will experience it, and I wonder how white people will experience it."

https://corridor8.co.uk/article/reversed-cartography-on-liverpool-biennial-2023/

#LiverpoolBiennial #ReversedCartography #AfricanDiaspora #HumanTrafficking #BritishEmpire #Colonialism #Commonwealth #Maps #Cartography #Names #Culture
#AmWriting #Writer #GlobalMajority #BlackMastodon

https://marjoriemorgan.substack.com/p/liverpool-biennial-world-refugee?sd=pf

Liverpool Biennial, World Refugee Week, Windrush 75
A glut of events and occasions that demand attention and thought:
Migration, British Empire, Colonialism, Cultural erasure, Names, uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things

#LiverpoolBiennial #Liverpool #WorldRefugeeWeek #Windrush75 #Migration #Colonialism #AfricanHolocaust #HumanTrafficking #BritishEmpire #Names #Newsletter #MarjoriesMusings #AmWriting

Uganda’s anti-gay bill would see me killed if I return | The Independent
#Uganda
#AntGayBill
#Homophobia
#Homosexuality
#Gay
#AntiHomosexualityBill
#AHB23
#LGBT
#PublicHealth
#Ally
#CompaniesMasqueradingAsAllies
#BritishEmpire
#Poverty
#UniversalEqualRights
#GayRightsAreHumanRights
#HumanRights
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/uganda-anti-gay-bill-lgbt-b2342938.html

_The Evening Post_, 21 May 1923:
“END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE”
A BRITANNIC ALLIANCE
…
The Great War … saw the end of the British Empire, either as it had existed under Queen Victoria or as Imperialists conceived it.… the constitutional historian sums it up by saying that the British Empire has been replaced by a Britannic Alliance … Anyone to-day who talks of the British Empire is out of date.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19230521.2.17
#OnThisDay #OTD #NewZealand #PapersPast #BritishEmpire #Commonwealth

I don't care what anyone says the majority of the problems we are dealing with today can be laid at the feet if the British.

ajplus on TikTok

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJ9Ya3Gt/?t=2

>Did you know that lawns were a tool of British colonialism in places like India and South Africa? #Colonialism #BritishColonialism #Britain #UK #BritishEmpire #India #SouthAfrica

Happy birthday to Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE, etc. – born #OTD, 5 May, 1822. As his extraordinary entry in Who’s Who (c.1908, below) shows, Sir Harry embodied all those qualities that built & sustained the #BritishEmpire 🇬🇧

#Scottish #literature #historicalfiction
@bookstodon
https://www.harryflashman.org/flashypapers.html
1/3

https://archive.org/details/graves-unmarked

In Graves Unmarked: Slavery and Abolition in Stoneham, Massachusetts by Ben Jacques

Topics
#blackchattelslavery, #slavey, #abolition, #antiblackness, #massachusetts, #stoneham, #charlestown, #unitedstatesofamerika, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #slavemasters, #slaveowners, #enslavedpeople, #enslavedAfricans, #slavelabor, #slavercolonialism, #invadercolonialism

“In winter the bare trees are black against the snow and sky in the Old Burying Ground on Pleasant Street. Like frosting, snow decorates the gravestones of our town’s early families. The Bryants, the Bucknams, the Gerrys, the Greens, the Goulds, the Hays—our founders.

But beyond the cluster of 18th and 19th century stones, there are bare spots where no markers disturb the gentle slope of the earth. Here those with no status in colonial Stoneham lie in unmarked graves. Here are buried the town’s slaves.”

So begins the untold story of slavery and abolition in a town of farmers and shoemakers just north of Boston. Once part of Charlestown, the village was incorporated in 1725 as Stoneham, Massachusetts.

The English East India Company (EIC or EEIC), later to become the British East India Company, was founded in 1600 as a trading company. https://www.worldhistory.org/East_India_Company/ #History #BritishEmpire #EastIndiaCompany #India

@chrisshaw @moranicly @TomSwirly @Pierrette @sevignes @Aviva_Gary

👆 No way would 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 or 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 be ok with that!

N🇮🇪 free of #BritishEmpire colonialism but 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 still trapped in it?!?!

England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & Westminster🏰 need to have their necks wound in for them, possibly by the force of #UDI if necessary.

David Conn: The British kings and queens who supported and profited from #slavery: From Elizabeth I to William IV, over a period of 270 years monarchs had links to the slave trade

#ukroyalty #uk #britishempire
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/06/the-british-kings-and-queens-who-supported-and-profited-from-slavery

David Pegg & Manisha Ganguly: #India archive reveals extent of ‘colonial loot’ in royal jewellery collection: File from India Office archive details how priceless items were extracted from colony as trophies of conquest

"As part of its Cost of the crown series, the Guardian has uncovered a remarkable 46-page file in the archives of the India Office, the government department that was responsible for Britain’s rule over the Indian subcontinent. It details an investigation, apparently commissioned by Queen Mary, the grandmother of Elizabeth II, into the imperial origins of her jewels."

#uk #britishempire #colonialism #looting
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/06/indian-archive-reveals-extent-of-colonial-loot-in-royal-jewellery-collection

Brilliant, forensic, passionate analysis of how a society such as in the UK can forget, ignore or shrug the searing racialism of power of the Empire and colonialism. Much only recently coming to light. By Gary Younge, sociology professor at Manchester (UK) University. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/29/lest-we-remember-how-britain-buried-its-history-of-slavery.
#colonialism #slavery #BritishEmpire #culture #sociology #economics #history