It’s not as if such knowledge is unavailable to people who are going on TV to discuss these things
Howard French

This “debate” on GB TV sparked by our Trade & Business Secretary demonstrates such a profound and damaging level of ignorance that it’s hard to know where to start. If anything indicates the need for our entire educational & media ecosystem to undergo some form of decolonisation…

The British Army's Red River Expedition of 1870 is regarded as 'among the most arduous in history”. It made the reputation of the 'very model of a modern major general', who went on to become Commander in Chief, Garnet Wolseley.
But did it become legendary only because of…

The Language of Colonisation: A Case Study linkedin.com/pulse/language… via LinkedIn Alan Lester @pacifichistory

Peter Barham has written before on the ‘treatment’ of people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders: historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-his…

In this book he focuses on the historical points of intersection between “madness” and race, showing how the policing of “reason” and “rationality” has…

Policing Minister Chris Philp has just asked if Congo is a different country from Rwanda while on BBC's Question Time 👀

Doctoral studentship on creative writing & Atlantic slavery:

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THRILLED to be longlisted for the Information Book Awards. It shows that kids and adults want to read engaging, thoughtful and fun writing about the British Empire, how we make sense of the world and our own stories: conversations, not culture wars.
Thank you School Library Association (SLA)
#IBA2024

The recent debates on colonialism’s contribution to British economic predominance, sparked by Kemi Badenoch & her allies, need to be cast in a wider frame: it’s the imperial economy that matters, not the inflows & outflows from the British Isles alone.

For an example of…

stephen Kemi Badenoch The Telegraph William Dalrymple Which historians’ work would you like to discuss Stephen?

You’re right that many contemporaries doubted the value of empire at various times - I said this myself. I hope your understanding of the scholarship on the material dimensions of colonisation as a whole, though, is not…

Alan Lester Kemi Badenoch The Telegraph William Dalrymple Amitav Ghosh's Smoke & Ashes is also good on the British Empire's financial reliance on opium.

My discussion with James O'Brien today overlapped into this recording of the next show. Do listen to the start if you want to hear about the forthcoming Truth About Empire amzn.eu/d/djk7NWL

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Catch Alan Lester’s conversation with James O'Brien on LBC Global Player about upholding historical #truth and the dangers of public denial about the #BritishEmpire .
#TheTruthAboutEmpire is out in June.

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Developmental harms of school
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Tory failure to turn U.K. into the least attractive destination in Europe for asylum seekers.
PMQs with Lewis Goodall
Sacha Lord on his new book & matters Manchester
Alan Lester on Tufton Street’s war on history
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Alan Lester - booked!

Talking about this with James O'Brien at the end here: globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/uk…

This is what we have just been talking about on air.