Empire

The foundations of modern India were laid by the British governor-general, Warren Hastings. But he paid a heavy personal price.

The Lord Protector’s move on Jamaica transformed Britain’s early empire.

An extensively researched, hard-hitting reassessment of British rule in India pulls no punches, but does not tell the whole story. 

A persuasively argued but one-sided account of the economic and political failings of British rule in India.

In 1947, fraught Anglo-French relations came to a head in the crucible of the Indian Ocean with the outbreak of Madagascar’s Malagasy Uprising.

Iran, despite its conquest by the armies of Islam, retained its own Persian language and much of its culture. Khodadad Rezakhani examines the process by which a Zoroastrian empire became part of the Islamic world.  

A major conflict in the Chilean War of Independence was fought on 12 February 1817.

In the popular imagination, the archetypal British imperialist is the kind of daring young adventurer portrayed in the stories of Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling. But, reveals Will Jackson, those who settled the Empire were far more diverse than stereotypes allow.

The notion that  ‘Greed is Good’ was not born in the 1980s, nor even in the 20th century. Frank Trentmann traces the roots of today’s rampant consumer culture to the imperial ambitions of the great European powers.

The First World War threw together people from all over the world. Anna Maguire considers images of these chance meetings and the light they shed on a global conflict.