Tag: British Empire

Total Results: 37


The lawn promised domestic happiness. Dennis Hallinan/Getty Images
05/23/2022 - 1:00am

Is your garden imperialist? The lawn became a symbol of domestic success

Giles Fraser

Tuesday, May 3

03.05

What Harry Flashman teaches us about empire The anti-hero embodies Britain's awkward colonial reckoning

Aris Roussinos

Friday, April 15

15.04

The future of Anglicanism is African British Christianity is being revived by migration

Tomiwa Owolade

Thursday, December 16

16.12

What Brexiteers get wrong about empire It is better to be woke than dead

Ferdinand Mount

Friday, November 19

19.11

In defence of defending empire Why are anti-colonialists suppressing a book instead of challenging it?

Robert Tombs

Wednesday, September 1

01.09

America’s African shame Susan Williams' 'White Malice' shows how destructive US imperialism was

Ralph Leonard

Monday, August 30

30.08

Afghanistan always defeats the West A grasp of history might have prevented this disastrous war

William Dalrymple

Thursday, July 1

01.07

China’s Communist Party owes it all to colonialism President Xi's centennial celebrations forget the CCP's debt to imperial powers

Bill Hayton

Wednesday, June 23

23.06

The fate of the ‘Anywhere’ people They have found a new way to reject their national identity

Robert Tombs

Thursday, December 31

31.12

Was the British Empire a curse? The Long Way Back: Margot Bennett sounds a warning that all such imperial projects are doomed

Matthew Sweet

Tuesday, July 21

21.07

The myth of ‘Anglo-America’ Simplistic civilisational narratives are all the rage right now — but take them with a pinch of salt

Peter Franklin

Tuesday, January 28

28.01

How will Britain cope without empire? Our diminished nation needs a democratic refit as we leave imperial Europe

Jonathan Rutherford