Salman Rushdie: Children must be taught about the British Empire

Children need to be taught about the British Empire to understand its significance in shaping modern Britain, Sir Salman ...
The New Criterion

Rewriting the history of the British Empire

In the new film of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, the writer and director Patricia Rozema includes an early scene that is not in the book. As Fanny Price departs from her family in Portsmouth to ...
LBCOpinion

Failing to teach history of British Empire in schools means children do not understand role in shaping UK, claims Salman Rushdie

Failing to teach the history of the Empire in schools means that children do not understand its significance in shaping ...
Opinion
The Spectator AustraliaOpinion

The truth about how the British Empire is taught in schools

William Dalrymple says that children ‘don’t learn’ about the British Empire at school. It is an ‘elephant in the ...
National Review

The Course of Empire

What Sweden’s Attempt to Course-Correct on Migration Shows the West A Golden Opportunity to Destabilize Planned Parenthood The Temporary Immigration Program That’s Been Forever Bernie Moreno’s Left ...
insider.si.edu

The British Empire before the American Revolution

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...
The National Interest

The British Are Coming! Britain’s 5 Worst Military Defeats in History

Key point: the British Empire’s hubris led it into many disastrous encounters. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and more than a few that stained British ...