This is the report delivered by Tom Scripps, the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK), to the 2023 International May Day Online Rally. To ...

South India witnessed a series of rebellions in the early part of the 19th century that shook the East India Company. These ...

Michael D Higgins accuses academics and journalists of turning blind eye to impact of colonialism Ireland’s president, Michael D Higgins, has made a sharp critique of British imperialism and the ...

Seventy-four years ago, on 17 August 1947, two lines were etched on the world map, splitting the Indian states of Punjab and Bengal roughly in half. The border in Punjab delineated the new country of ...

The RSC play 'Falkland Sound' tells the islanders' story as they found themselves at the centre of world attention and deals sensitively with notions of jingoism and nationalism Joane Howarth as ...

The author uses his connection with the Lowland Scots – one he shares with David Cameron – to bring to life the era of British rule in India in an admirably rounded study Few people in Britain ...

Queen Elizabeth II has passed away aged 96, after seven decades on the throne as head of the United Kingdom. Her death occurs at a time of acute economic, social and political crisis for British ...

This book begins with an overenthusiastic and unconvincing effort to distinguish itself from previous works of imperial history. Yet readers should persevere, because Burton’s basic interpretation of ...

A shot of magnifier glass over map. Looking, searching, research information and traveling Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful ...

Louis is arguably the preeminent scholar in the field of British imperial history -- and is surely so among those who write on British imperial ventures in the Middle East. Somewhat more than half of ...