Stolen History: The truth about the British Empire and how it shaped us

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I think what gets me the most is her preternatural ability to make a conversation in a hospital hallway or a woman boarding a train more riveting than the climactic shootout in someone else’s book.

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A useful antidote to those pushing culture wars, Empireland should be read with an open mind by all of us educated in this country – as we have only really ever had a limited perspective of what it means to be British and the impact of the British Empire. All this is because for centuries white Britons colonised nations all over the world – proclaiming their intimate, familial allegiance while invading, occupying, plundering, humiliating and killing their peoples on a massive scale – to benefit British wealth and self-esteem.As Sathnam Sanghera argues in his timely Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, the collective amnesia over the nation’s often-dark colonial past underpins the jingoism that helped spawned policy disasters from Suez to Brexit. He attended Wolverhampton Grammar School, an independent school where he had gained a place after passing the 11+ and was funded by the government's assisted places scheme.

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It’s a funny and touching piece of work that draws on feelings of belonging and unbelonging, and cultural nuance. Because how can we ever make the world a kinder, better place for the future, if we don't know the truth about the past? In the early 19th century, three major insurrections – in Barbados in 1816, British Guyana in 1823, and Jamaica in 1831-32 – helped force the hands of the British.

Many of us dread AI becoming conscious; this book might leave you praying that it does so as quickly as possible. When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando is just such a book: a coming-of-age story that takes a searing and honest look at racial discrimination in the education and justice systems. But one of the best things was how the book was taken up by teachers and young people, helped by PRH’s donation of 15,000 copies to schools in the UK. Sanghera has produced a terrific sweep through the legacy of empire and it should be required reading on every school history course. Without getting bogged down in definitions, calculations or complicated comparisons, Empireland also manages to convey something of the sheer variety of imperial experiences over four centuries, and the limits of broad-brush explanations.

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David Olusoga’s latest edition of Black and Britishhas been revised and rewritten especially for secondary school children, and explains and illustrates the much-overlooked history of Black peoples in Britain and beyond. And this was the first time he had worked with an illustrator—Jen Khatun, who is of Bangladeshi/Indian heritage. Most importantly empire is largely responsible for making Britain the multicultural country it is today.In Glimpses of Utopia, Jess Scully (a former deputy mayor for Sydney, Australia) takes a pragmatic and optimistic look at what we can all do to help. The Crown by Emily Kapff is simple, beautiful and heart-wrenching: a dispatch from the future that takes the form of a picture book. We know that there are no miracle recipes, but at least for me, trying to put some of these agreements into practice helped me transform things at an individual level. Here, we’ve shared the afterword from the book, which provides a more detailed overview of the historic event, written by Swapna Haddow.