Lake District, England (1896) ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
#LakeDistrict #britishempire #victorianera #England #Britain #UK
The Great Game Unfolds: With Sarat Chandra Das at the helm, the #BritishEmpire embarked on a clandestine operation to bolster its influence in #Tibet .
#Tibet Intelligence #GreatGameStrategy
#DarjeelingSpies
Lake District, England (1896) ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
#LakeDistrict #britishempire #victorianera #England #Britain #UK
#AbolishCommonwealthGames
Time to put this brutal British colonial relic into the history book, just like the #BritishEmpire
Sir Walter Raleigh The #BritishEmpire is alive and well, it still very much exists. It posseses over a million sq km virgin territory in the Antarctic, has 14 colonies and a number of dominions. There is the enduring Crown Commonwealth as well:
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Is this the 2024 version of #ArchdukeFerdinand moment for us? 110 years after that assassination which ended the first phase of globalisation under #BritishEmpire which lasted after end of Nepoleonic Wars in 1818 till 1914. Hope not.
Ahh #homophobic #Britain , the one where in #Australia you could kill a non #Caucasian for no reason than you were Caucasian & not be prosecuted, that #greatBritain , you as a #Ethnic #minority want that #Empire back ? Bullets for blacks? That #BritishEmpire back? You want that??๐
Looks like every large exciting #Metropolitan city in the WORLD #NewYork #Paris #Amsterdam
The problem I believe the #UK has, longing for the days of #BritishEmpire when only people of color were slaves, 100s of yrs, 6x more than the southern US! Facts: #Brexit #MeghanMarkle ๐ฌ๐งโ๏ธ
Let's not forget most of the jewels were stolen from #BritishEmpire 's colonies. Never understood why anyone would want to take things not theirs, &behave like POSH SNOBSโผ๏ธ๐ฌ๐ง
I respect #Royal MISFITS; #Diana #HarryandMeghan #PrincessBeatrice #PrincessEugenie #SarahFerguson ๐
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#Tomorrow #ITN will launch #michaelpalin 's
#Nigeria documentary. He'll no doubt need to reference the #BritishEmpire .
#antiqueprints from #frontispiece of #canarywharf
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#antiqueprints #history #geography #cartography #Africa #art
BBC: Asante Gold: UK returns looted Ghana artefacts after 150 years
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#Colonialism #BritishEmpire #Loot
#WhatBritainDidToNigeria by Dr Max Siollun is now available in paperback! ๐
An exposรฉ of the #BritishEmpire โs shameful impact on #Africa โs most populous state.
โBrings [a] much needed African viewpoint to [ #Nigeria โs] #colonial history.โ โ Financial Times
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๐ฟ๐ฐ British heist targets rare cinchona seeds for malaria cure. In the age of empires, a battle for botanical dominance unfolds. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-feโฆ #BritishEmpire #BotanicalHeist #Cinchona 99 Percent Invisible
Badge and battle honours of the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers (artist unknown), from the Regimental History, 1894. Campaign bars date back to the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, with the most recent at the time being the Third Anglo-Burmese War, 1885-1887. #britishempire #britisharmy
Our friends PortraitEMB's national survey has been extended until 30th April.
#Teachers they want to hear your views & experiences on teaching #BritishEmpire Your input will directly inform future support & CPD.
Complete & share their landmark survey. redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=L33โฆ RT