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- 1From:The EconomistBy the mid-1960s Britain was well into the process of dismantling its empire. But in 1965, the same year it gave up the Gambia and the Maldives, it also created a new colony. During negotiations with Mauritius over its...
- 2From:Spectator (Vol. 350, Issue 10125)Sovereign's states When she died, Elizabeth II was Queen of 14 nations other than the UK: Antigua and Barbuda; Australia; the Bahamas; Belize; Canada; Grenada; Jamaica; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; St Kitts and...
- 3From:Spectator (Vol. 350, Issue 10125)It's a question which would inevitably surface during any serious discussion of Queen Elizabeth II: who was her favourite prime minister? Unlike her grandfather, George V, who was clear that he favoured Ramsay...
- 4From:The EconomistWill the new monarch keep his mother's favourite club going? W HEN ELIZABETH II inherited the throne in 1952, great swathes of the world map were bedecked in imperial red. Britain still ruled--or had a predominant...
- 5From:The EconomistINDIA'S FILM industry rivals Hollywood for scale and spectacle. Yet "RRR" is set in India during the 1920s, and draws attention to the inequalities and abuses of colonial rule. The quasi-historical plot imagines two...
- 6From:Spectator (Vol. 351, Issue 10141)Talismans from the past are rare but still to be found, especially at the old Posthotel. Faded bleached photographs of horse-drawn sleds on Main Street, long-bearded peasants chopping wood on the Eggli, even skiers...
- 7From:Spectator (Vol. 349, Issue 10116)The word 'colony meets with a sharp intake of breath these days, but 'province' raises no eyebrows. How very odd. The ancient Greeks invented the western notion of the colony. But 'colony' is the term the Romans...
- 8From:Spectator (Vol. 350, Issue 10133)Let nobody say Liz Truss achieved nothing in her mayfly days at Downing Street. She gave away the vast British Indian Ocean territory, the islands and the sea around them, known as the Chagos Islands. To be more precise,...
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- 10From:The Brooklyn RailIn this photo, a young man--maybe a boy--averts his gaze from the camera. Let's call him Ahamefuna: let my name/legacy not be forgotten. The photographer did not catch him by surprise, for the young man had carried...
- 11From:New Internationalist (Issue 540)In his first speech to Britain and the Commonwealth as the new monarch, King Charles III thanked his mother for her devotion to the 'family of nations'. But what makes a family? One of the key things that unites the 53...
- 12From:Art Monthly (Issue 460)Through the Ionic entrance of Cape Town's Mount Nelson Hotel are lush green lawns and a long pathway lined with impossibly tall palm trees. The city's hustle recedes with each step that brings you closer to the main...
- 13From:New African (Issue 615)Colonial history continues to throw up surprising and often revealing nuggets, including the stories of great eccentrics and extraordinary characters which add to the great African heritage. Brenden Sainsbury explores...
- 14From:Spectator (Vol. 350, Issue 10125)In the face of American snark about the Queen's death, many a British newspaper reader was disgusted. With bad tidings imminent on Thursday last week, an academic at Carnegie Mellon tweeted: 'I heard the chief monarch of...
- 15From:New Statesman (Vol. 151, Issue 5685)It's the "woke" liberal elite that threatens free speech, we are perpetually told. Those who hold traditional, patriotic views are allegedly bullied into silence. But try expressing republican opinions in the wake of...
- 16From:Art Monthly (Issue 459)Chris McCormack: Located at the entrance of the Horniman Museum's extensive 19th-century collection of taxidermy is your exhibition 'Dolphin Head Mountain', which you produced during your residency at the Delfina...
- 17From:New Statesman (Vol. 151, Issue 5673)As the sun set over Hong Kong on 30 June 1997, a small group of dignitaries led by Prince Charles and China's then president, Jiang Zemin, gathered for a ceremony to mark the official handover of the territory from...
- 18From:New Internationalist (Issue 536)Prisons were among the first buildings the British built wherever they colonized. Arriving in Kenya in 1895, within 16 years they had built 30 prisons, with on any given day over 1,500 inmates. Over the next two decades,...
- 19From:Subtropics (Issue 32)In 1735, when Lewis Hallam was twenty years old, his cousin Thomas was accidentally stabbed to death in a dispute over a wig. Years later, Lewis Hallam would lead a troupe of professional actors on a risky venture to...
- 20From:International Journal of Arts and Humanities (Vol. 49, Issue 49)Byline: Asma Iqbal Kayani, Behzad Anwar and Shamshad Rasool Keywords: Abbreviation; Acronym; Nativization; Pakistani English (PakE); Shortened Forms Abbreviations: Abb. (Abbreviations), DN (Detail of news story), HN...