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Reforming the business school is the next step in the radical revolution needed in higher education.
La Nouvelle-Zélande aussi s'interroge sur le sort à réserver aux monuments et aux noms de lieux rendant hommage au passé colonial.
The story of the growth of Britain’s sugar trade can tell us a lot about the development of capitalism and the slave trade.
It was a great celebration, but not everyone was jubilant.
For celebrated botanist Joseph Banks, his voyage with James Cook was more about extending imperial power than simply discovery.
If we’re ever to move past outmoded values of gender, race and class, we need to wish Prince Harry and Meghan Markle well — and challenge those who would prefer everything remains the same.
The British Labour Party has pledged to conduct an audit of the impact of Britain’s colonial legacy.
The crisis of Conservatism of the early 20th century has some parallels for the party today.
A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
Art, outreach and fieldwork can help reframe Britain’s imperial past, by re-humanising the people subjected to anthropological ‘colonial science’.
Sikh gurus adopted the turban, in part, to remind Sikhs that all humans are sovereign, royal and ultimately equal. But their attire can also lead to misunderstandings and at times, hate crimes.
The Peterloo massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed on British soil, but across the empire there were many such acts.
Turkey and the EU are trading insults over the rights to exploit the huge gas reserves over the eastern Mediterranean island.
The link between empire, inequality – and Brexit.
This is a transcript of episode three of The Anthill podcast series India Tomorrow on Kashmir.
The UK has been humiliated by a judgment that offers hope to other nations looking to unburden themselves from the legacy of imperialism.
While the film introduces viewers to women who were important political figures in British history, it doesn’t quite capture just how much power and influence these women actually wielded.
Britain has long dreamed of breaking away from the European continent but global trade has never replaced links with its close neighbours.
British is an imperial term, not a national one.
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Visiting Fellow in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
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Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex
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Assistant Professor of History, Thompson Rivers University
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Communication, University of Liverpool
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Postdoctoral Fellow in International Law, Lund University
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Senior Lecturer, History, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer, Literary and Cultural Studies, Monash University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Lecturer in Media, Lancaster University
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies, University of Manchester