Tag: Colonialism
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The legacy of colonialism (and feudal entitlement)
Three articles in last week’s Sunday Times I found very thought-provoking. The first is about the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford. I visited some years ago and it is certainly a gruesomely intriguing display of the results of colonial theft. The shrunken heads are no longer exhibited however. I feel for the director, Dr Laura van…
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Colonialism, the British Empire and the Buggery Act
This is a subject I really feel I should have known a great deal more about, but it is almost entirely new to me. The trigger was a chapter from A Short History of the World in 50 Lies by Natasha Tidd, Michel O’Mara Books Limited, 2023, a book I will come back to later. …