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The Museum of British Colonialism

| 25 September 2018

AN EXPLORATION OF BRITISH COLONIALISM The Museum of British Colonialism has been realised to creatively communicate a more truthful account of British colonialism. We have a documentary and a pilot exhibition in the works and will use this site to gather, share, present and comment on material and r...
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Britain should stop trying to pretend that its empire was benevolent

May 13, 2016 | 10 October 2018

Interesting 2016 article from Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex on Britain's attitude to empire and the racist underpinnings of the view that the empire was benevolent. Published in The Conversation.
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Court hears of policy to discredit abuse claims during Mau Mau uprising

Owen Bowcott, The Guardian | 28 February 2017

Counsel for Kenyan claimants accuses the Conservative government of 1950s of undermining people who reported abuse
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Facts about Atrocity: Reporting Colonial Violence in Postwar Britain

2 February 2018 | 22 August 2017

ABSTRACT What did people in Britain know about the violence of counterinsurgency campaigns at the end of empire in the 1940s and 1950s? In many ways, British knowledge about colonial violence was widespread. But it was also fragmented and ambiguous: whispered among family and friends; dramatized in...
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The Wrong Lesson (pub 2005)

Caroline Elkins- Article from The Atlantic magazine | 22 August 2017

What lessons can be learned from British counter-insurgency methods deployed in Kenya, Cyprus and elsewhere? Should the US follow suit? Counter-gangs and counter-insurgency.
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Good Friday Agreement Implementation Committee

Pat Finucane Centre 12th October 2017 | 18 October 2017

PFC's Anne Cadwallader and Justice for the Forgotten's Margaret Urwin spoke to the Oireachtas on the topic of the Good Friday Agreement's implementation on 12 October.
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Families challenge MoD and Prime Minister in London

PFC | 15 November 2016

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned the recent Tory party conference about what she called: "… activist, left-wing human rights lawyers [who] harangue and harass the bravest of the brave – the men and women of Britain’s Armed Forces". She also vowed to defend soldiers against "vexatious allega...
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What price a life? May's rhetoric and the MOD's reality

Tom Griffin, Spinwatch | 16 November 2016

In the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, recent months have seen an increasingly chauvinistic tone in British politics. One aspect of this has been a concerted campaign against investigations of abuse by the Armed Forces. Conservative MPs have pressed Theresa May to curtail the activities of the I...
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Northern Ireland families challenge May’s defence of army

Gerry Moriarty, Irish Times | 15 November 2016

Mobile advertising campaign in London highlights cases of disputed killings by British soldiers
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