Empire
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
The human condition, in Wales
The universal and the particular sit awkwardly in this Cardiff exhibition
Unstable foundations
The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque
Kill or be killed: the charming cut-throats of the wild frontier
Visiting the site of a long-forgotten siege in the Hindu Kush
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
The British empire, for good and ill
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning offers the first serious counterblast against the hysterical orthodoxy
What future for Benin’s bronzes?
Proponents of repatriation of the remarkable sculptures have shown scant regard to Nigeria’s endemic corruption and the fate of bronzes already sent back to Africa
Running the rule over ages of empire
A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
Empire of the Imagination
Historical metafiction