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Britain is Right to Celebrate the Abolition of Slavery, But Must Acknowledge Excesses of Empire

by Alan Lester As the UK celebrates its role in the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, it’s important to recognise that Britain’s humanitarianism was ultimately cut from the same cloth as imperial expansion. Britain’s Anti-Slavery Day should remind us

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Time to Throw out the Balance Sheet

by Alan Lester A bit of a departure from our standard project blog, this essay responds to the latest rehashing of the British Empire in the media (The Rhodes statue debate and a YouGov poll have both made the British

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