Following the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's apology for the non-commemoration of Black and Asian soldiers in the First World War, John Siblon explores how and why their memory was deliberately hidden by Britain.
The last fortnight has seen many statues associated with racism and colonialism torn down. When were they originally put up, and what can that tell about the history of whiteness and empire? Peter Hill explores.
With debates over the public history of empire and colonialism intensifying across Europe, Afonso Dias Ramos explores the controversy in Portugal over the use of the term “Discoveries” to encompass the country’s complex colonial past.
‘Anglo-Saxons’ has long been associated with the early English people, but this label suffers from a long history of misuse. Mary Rambaran-Olm explores the racist legacy of this term.
What can eighteenth-century ceramics tell us about empire? Elisabeth Grass examines how fine china tea cups and saucers became fashionable commodities that represent some of the many ways in which empire appeared, and was normalised, in…
'Stolen', 'plundered' and 'more than art'. Meg Foster looks at the living spiritual and cultural meanings of 'objects' featured in the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Britain’s Brexit shambles owes much to historical mythologies about Britain’s role in the Second World War, shaped by imperial legacies. Robert Knight explores Joe Wright’s much praised film Darkest Hour as a prominent recent…
Secretary of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign Bernard Regan gives an activist’s perspective on the history of the Cuban Revolution and explains why the Campaign continues to fight today.
In the second of our History Workshop World Cup series, Charlotte Lydia Riley explores England football fans' relationship to national identity, white masculinity, and post-imperial melancholia.
For the latest post in our Radical Books series, Ole Birk Laursen tracks the influence of Maxim Gorky's anti-Tsarist poem 'Song of the Falcon' on Russian and Indian revolutionaries before the Russian Revolution
Naomi Hossain compares President Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 to the Pakistani government's response to the 1970 Bhola Cyclone in Bangladesh, to examine the implications of disaster for legitimacy, imperial…
The Wretched of the Earth was the final work of Frantz Fanon, a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria’s struggle for independence. This new history of the 'Third World' depicted the unresolved and open-ended nature of…
The Peace History Conference and the Working Class Movement Library present a day exploring the effects of the Russian Revolutions on the British labour and peace movements.
This August India celebrates 70 years of independence, but denotified and nomadic communities will commemorate their own anniversary: 65 years since the repeal of the Criminal Tribes Act, one of the British Empire's most draconian and…