#British

Mitra Sharafi

mjsharafi

Tough but essential reading for this animal lover: @PratikChakrab's chapter 3 on the history of animal experimentation in colonial India in his excellent book, Bacteriology in British India: Lab Medicine

Kojo Koram

KojoKoram

Seeing this shared a lot. Perhaps the strongest articulation of a growing feeling that empire isn’t really relevant to today.Problem is this review, like many others, never talks about distinctiveness

Karl McDonald

karlusss

Did some effing research to check whether bilingual road signs are actually dangerous/distracting/etc, after the recent #angearasdan Fort William rowhttps://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bilingual-scotland-british-uk-road-signs-science-danger

ਜੋਧਸਿੰਘ (JungNihang)

YungBhujang

I think it’s important for Sikhs to own their narrative and tell their own stories.The British Army is the same one that used treachery in the Anglo-Sikh war. Sikhs, and

Andrew Neil

afneil

Owen Jones is a compulsive liar. He lumps me with so called "cheerleaders" for Trump. Yet he cannot produce a single example of me cheerleading for him. If he had

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

A very happy Thanksgiving to all our American sisters and brothers who are today giving thanks that they were once subjects of the British Crown and lamenting the seditious activities

Pashtun Queen

SwatayQ

A short thread on decolonisation and why some of you should read more about your history before jumping to conclusions. Our colonial history is responsible for the stagnant understanding of

Jed

Jedshepherd

How do we get funding for upcoming British HORROR filmmakers? I’m seeing a lot of places making overtures that they support the genre but let’s see the funding to back

Anthony Nine

spaceweather9

While I'm *speculatively* open to the idea that Dee's Enochian gear and cartography played a role in inspiring British colonial expansion in the Elizabethan era, I also suspect that whatever

GlumBird

GlumBird

Clement Attlee presided over one of the most violent periods in British colonialism's history, sending troops to Malaya to put down striking rubber workers, deepening Britain's already vast violence in

🇮🇳Sonal 🇮🇳

ShreshthaDharma

Do You Know?Laxmi Bai was Queen of Jhansi who is famous for fighting British forces till her last breath. But did you know that there was a person who was

Rachel Fraser

rachelefraser

Moral ignorance (“colonialism was not that bad”) is often sustained by factual ignorance (ignorance of what colonialism *actually involved*), but there are interesting cases where moral knowledge seems sustained by

syam

shyamlucky

My Dear, Hindus never got independence. Since, 1947 governments were following Macaulay and British system of governance. The constitution was a copy of 1935 British India act. Reservations are a

Alex

staunchmarxist

Former labour leader Clement Attlee, who is often talked about as a great socialist leader within the party. The very opposite was the case, he was a staunch anti-communist and

John West 🕯💙

JohnWest_JAWS

If you really want to understand Brexit, look at the currency exchange rate of GBP vs EURUp until the financial crash of 2008, 1 EUR bought you about 60pThen it

Sarah Owen MP

SarahOwen_

THREAD: I thought hard before posting this because knee-jerk reactions help no one, but as the daughter of a Malaysian immigrant this is personal.The idea of ‘indigenous people’ of Britain

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