Britain’s Willing Imperialists
Were 19th-century Britons as apathetic towards their nation’s vast Empire as some historians have argued?
Were 19th-century Britons as apathetic towards their nation’s vast Empire as some historians have argued?
At Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, pride in the British Empire seemed at its zenith, but in a fresh look at the commemorative poems of Rudyard Kipling, Denis Judd finds the poet pointing to cracks in the imperial façade.