legacy of colonialism

iMAGINE Festival: Legacy of Colonialism

25th - 30th March 2019 | 20 March 2019

The PFC has been working in partnership with the Museum of British Colonialism (MofBC) – an online archive created to gather, share, and comment on British colonial rule worldwide. The Museum has produced a documentary ('Operation Legacy') and exhibition which are intended to help those interested...
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Breaking the silence on partition and British Colonial history (Published 31 July 2017)

Reflections 70 years after the partition of the Indian sub-continent | 11 October 2018

Many British south Asian families were caught up in the violence of 1947 when Britain partitioned India. Seventy years on, some are telling their stories for the first time. Kavita Puri is the editor of Our World and presenter of Partition Voices on BBC Radio 4
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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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As Glasgow University owns up to slavery wealth, others urged to follow

The Guardian | 25 September 2018

The institution is making reparations after admitting it had made £200m from the transatlantic trade
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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...
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Historical nonsense underpins UK’s Brexit floundering. From Hastings to Dunkirk a past that blinds Britain to reality has been peddled

Irish Times | 25 September 2018

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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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Legacy of Colonialism Exhibition

Museum of Free Derry, Aug, Sept & Oct | 15 August 2017

The 'Legacy of Colonialism' Exhibition will be on display throughout August, September and October at the Museum of Free Derry.
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British Lies to European Court Paved Way for Global Use of Torture

Tom Griffin/Open Democracy | 25 July 2017

When the European Court ruled that detainees in Northern Ireland were NOT tortured but only subjected to "inhuman and degrading" treatment, it gave the green light to other regimes worldwide. New evidence shows the court's ruling was based on false evidence - yet people are still being tortured...
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British Empire-Students should be taught history of colonialism say historians

The Independent newspaper 22 January 2016 | 03 July 2017

Article from the Independent with comments from various historians regarding the need to teach the history of colonialisation in British universities.
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