The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, whose yearning for social acceptance brought titles at the cost of success

Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld

Inflated Mau Mau death figures based on incorrect statistical projections have now become accepted as “fact”

Could a progressive historian really write in praise of African slave-traders?

Few things are more tedious than books moralising about the deficiencies of yesteryear

Why remember the embarrassing first steps of a giant?

Did Britain’s 18th century colonies spur the Industrial Revolution?

Remembering a lost dream

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy

At its most radical, the push for decolonising the curriculum rests on a series of false assumptions that we need to repudiate