Thus the rise of capitalism cannot be disassociated from drug use as was the case with opium which the Chinese were forced to ...

The vehicle for Belgium’s entry into the Scramble for Africa was the International African Association. The organization’s ...

After the Black Lives Matter riots and the cultural reckoning of 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, New York City’s ...

In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck ...

Last week, a meeting at the United Nations brought together the descendants of enslaved people and slave owners. The attendees discussed ways to compensate former British colonies in the Caribbean for ...

Liverpool merchant, later in London, partner of Mayson Wilson (q.v.), bankrupt in 1810. Both Geo. Lackington, himself the assignee of Messrs Shipley Williams Wilson, and assignees of Geo.Lackington as ...

Brendon’s title is a deliberate echo of Gibbon’s masterpiece, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Not because he wishes to set himself up as a rival to Gibbon – no historian ‘in ...

T71/915 p. 149: claim from William Peart, of Manchester, as receiver to the estate of George Napier. Counterclaim from Mary Napier, of Pratt Place, Camden, a spinster, and Susanna Napier, an infant, ...

And former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan said she learned after records of Britain’s Slave Compensation Commission were put ...

The film depicts the aftermath of the brutal Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, with Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair’s notable legal battle against the British Empire at its core. Nair, an Indian jurist and ...

It is inspired by the book The Case That Shook the Empire: One Man’s Fight for the Truth about the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre by Raghu and Pushpa Palat. The story revolves around Sir Chettur Sankaran ...

“In the course of making one of my documentaries in 2024, I came across a story of how African slaves rebelled against British colonial ... defeat of the French empire by an African-led army ...