🧵1/11 I've just finished checking all of Biggar's endnotes containing the 'evidence' on which he bases his account of Empire. I have 208 pages of notes which I now need to condense! In the meantime, one last example here of the approach on which he bases his narrative:

Been a while since I saw someone get so comprehensively bodied. Hilarious.

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I have just encountered the dog snatched from the Chinese imperial palace during the Second Opium War and given to Queen Victoria. The Queen called her Looty.

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As a person with dispraxia can I just say how great* it is that virtually every professional, financial, or official interaction now involves transferring long, meaningless, strings of numbers and letters across multiple authentication platforms with no errors. *not great

Spent the last two years on this project to it means a lot to me: The Guardian has looked into its history and has discovered an uncomfortable truth: but it reveals a story of Britain's history being embedded with slavery theguardian.com/news/2023/mar/…

This is a great project. Some really interesting pieces in the Guardian today. To my mind this is what accepting and coming to terms with Britain's leading role in transatlantic slavery and its legacy in a realistic, sensible, and mature way looks like.

The research underpinning the reports is a brilliant demonstration of how slavery interwove with histories of industry, family & place. Placing slavery at the centre of the narrative of cotton changes how we understand industrialisation & the making of Britain.

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What connects slave trader Edward Colston to the royal family? Research by Brooke Newman uncovers a document from 1689 transferring £1000 of Royal African Company shares to William III. Imp article outlining royal links & need for fully funded research theguardian.com/world/2023/apr…

Good overview to a hard question. Hard to condense so much into a short summary.

If I was going to swear at King Charles I would have substantially less polite (and grovelling words). Abolish the monarchy.

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I asked the National Gallery how much money they make from image fees (the licensing cost if you want to publish works in their collection). After initially refusing to answer, they confirmed that actually they lose money. 1/3

This is absolutely spot on.

typo of the day: 'there is no separation of nature and nurture, or brian and behavior'