La Route Des Abolitionnistes
Graham Gendall Norton travels in search of those who fought for the rights of all.
Empire
The End of The Roman Empire: Did it Collapse or Was it Transformed?
Bryan Ward-Perkins finds that archaeology offers unarguable evidence for an abrupt ending.
The British Seaborne Empire
John MacKenzie samples two new works on the maritime history of Britain.
Cromwell and the Conquest of Jamaica
James Robertson investigates the Lord Protector’s ambitious plans for war with Spain in the Caribbean.
We Don’t Do Empire
Bernard Porter is unconvinced by American denials of a new imperialism and finds comparisons – as well as important differences – with the British experience.
Burying the Bones of the Past
David Anderson looks at the contentious issues raised as Kenya comes to terms with the colonial past.
Before New England: The Popham Colony
Richard L. Pflederer visits the site of the first short-lived English colony in Maine set up in competition with Jamestown in Virginia, and considers a remarkable map of it drawn by one of the colonists.
Edmund Spenser and British Policy in Ireland
Howard Amos interrogates a key text on colonialism and assesses its influence.
Benjamin Disraeli and the Spirit of England
T.A. Jenkins reviews the life and legacy of Benjamin Disraeli, statesman, novelist and man-about-town, on the bicentenary of his birth.
What Did They Know of Empire?
Bernard Porter argues that, through most of the nineteenth century, most Britons knew little and cared less about the spread of the Empire.