The New York Times

In Africa, the queen’s death renews a debate about the legacy of the British Empire.

While some in Africa paid tribute to the deceased monarch, others stressed Britain’s violent colonial history on the continent. By Abdi Latif Dahir Lynsey Chutel and Elian Peltier NAIROBI, Kenya — ...
Yahoo

The complicated history of Queen Victoria's colonial godchildren, who became symbols of assimilation and civilization in the British Empire

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queen Victoria had several wards and godchildren from British colonies, including Africa and India. The godchildren were treated ...
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How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa. In ...
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British Colonization of Africa | Animated History

States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. “The British Empire in Africa.” ...
The Nation

Worldwide Devastation

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...
The Nation Newspaper

Five African nations Britain colonised

Sierra Leone – officially known as the Republic of Sierra Leone whose capital is Freetown – is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa which shares its southeastern border with Liberia. Sierra ...
The Conversation

Meet the forgotten enslaved and working‑class labourers behind British exploration in Africa, Asia and Antarctica

Edward Armston-Sheret has received funding from the Institute of Historical Research (via the Alan Pearsall Fellowship in Naval and Maritime History), the Royal Historical Society, The Royal ...