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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Is it because Trump is Imperial and Starmer has a secret hard on for the British Empire?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/donald-trump-imperial-plan-usa-peoples-rights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/donald-trump-imperial-plan-usa-peoples-rights</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈The Yanks had a secret plan to fight the British too. Have they ever really been allies or just opportunists? That 'American Exceptionalism' which makes them untrustworthy liars when it comes to us Forrins. Copied that off us British because original ideas get shot at in the States.....<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cdnpoli</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CanPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElbowsUp</a>

Assoc for Scottish LiteratureAnns gach gnìomh a nì duine ’s mór urram nan gàidheal: Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir as the Voice of the Gael’s Military Masculinity in the 18th Century—Liesbeth Van Hulle, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 4/4<a href="https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2022.0345?journalCode=jshs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jshs.2022.0345?journalCode=jshs</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scottish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaelic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaidhlig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaidhlig</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#18thcentury</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#masculinity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈When ever these British Establishment creeps start pontificating on the 'moral case' for harming people I always think of some British Empire drone, lecturing some dominated population about the moral case for letting them starve while all their food is shipped away for profitShit like this...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poverty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKpolitics</a>

Estelle Platini"Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century […] • Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism. • The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality. • In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a> 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Estelle Platini“In her magisterial book The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan offers a sobering conclusion: The Partition of 1947 is also a loud reminder, should we care to listen, of the dangers of colonial interventions and the profound difficulties that dog regime change. It stands testament to the follies of empire, which ruptures community evolution, distorts historical trajectories and forces violent state formation from societies that would otherwise have taken different—and unknowable—paths. Partition is a lasting lesson of both the dangers of imperial hubris and the reactions of extreme nationalism. For better or worse, two nations continue to live alongside each other in South Asia and continue to live with these legacies.” ―Caroline Elkins, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liberalism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/raceMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#raceMaking</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hinduism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hinduism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violence</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/brutalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brutalization</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ethnic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethnic</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IndianSubcontinent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianSubcontinent</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pakistan</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bangladesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bangladesh</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#British</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BritishRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishRule</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CarolineElkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarolineElkins</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Elkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elkins</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/regimeChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regimeChange</a>

OpenHistoricalMapIt took <a href="https://mastodon.social/@CharliePlett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@CharliePlett</a> several months to map the British Empire and the hundreds of boundary changes involving its subdivisions and dependencies over the centuries. We’re a bit relieved it’s over – the huge boundary changes came close to melting the server a few times. Get a peek behind the scenes of this project from our intrepid mapper:<a href="https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/user/CharliePlett/diary/35" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/user/CharliePlett/diary/35</a><a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a>

Estelle Platini“For nearly a thousand years, communities on the Indian subcontinent had coexisted in a cultural melting where religious identity was less salient than ethnic or linguistic identity. “A hybrid Indo-Islamic civilization emerged,” according to the historian of India William Dalrymple. “In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages, and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religious faith.” Much as communities had negotiated means of coexistence in pre-Mandate Palestine only to see them unravel during British rule, the subcontinent’s communal arrangements corroded when the full weight of Britain’s colonial state bore down on them. The Raj’s divide and rule policies produced a chemical-like reaction, shattering long-standing traditions of coexistence and interacting with local personalities who had their own ambitions, passions, and allegiances. It was another liberal experiment in empire gone horribly wrong, and on a scale so epic that once history’s chain of contingent events combusted, no one could contain it.”Excerpt from Caroline Elkins' <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a>, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> hat-tip <a href="https://mastodon.world/@markvonwahlde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@markvonwahlde</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liberalism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/castism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#castism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/raceMaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#raceMaking</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hindouism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hindouism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/beliefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beliefs</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violence</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/brutalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brutalization</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ethnic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethnic</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religion</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#islamophobia</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/IndianSubcontinent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianSubcontinent</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pakistan</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Bangladesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bangladesh</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#British</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/preBritish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#preBritish</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BritishRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishRule</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bookStodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookStodon</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CarolineElkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarolineElkins</a>

Estelle Platini<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Infrastructure</a> in British <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a>: "Natural drainage of Bengal was disturbed due to construction of a network of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/railway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#railway</a> embankments resulting in formation of poorly drained “compartments” in different areas of Bengal. This led to excessive silting, damaged crop production, increased chance of flooding and created stagnant water pockets that were apt for water-borne diseases like cholera and malaria."Excerpt from: <a href="https://learn.culturalindia.net/bengal-famine-1943.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://learn.culturalindia.net/bengal-famine-1943.html</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#famine</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/starvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#starvation</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#agriculture</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/rice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rice</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Bangladesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bangladesh</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Churchill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Churchill</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/wwii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wwii</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/transport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transport</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/railways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#railways</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/railTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#railTransport</a>‎ <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/crops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crops</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BritishRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishRule</a>

Estelle PlatiniLong read: British rule in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s enabled Zionist colonisation at the expense of Palestinians.A.Bustos, "How Britain supported Zionism and prevented Palestinian freedom": <a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-supported-zionism-and-prevented-palestinian-freedom/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-supported-zionism-and-prevented-palestinian-freedom/</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@palestine</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a> 🧶<a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zionism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Balfour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Balfour</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/StandWithIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StandWithIsrael</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#terrorism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/coloniality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coloniality</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/proZionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proZionism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CAA</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JNF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JNF</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Britain</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/philosemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosemitism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/longRead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#longRead</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Diaspora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Diaspora</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiddleEast</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BritishRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishRule</a>

Mal<a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/PublicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicArt</a>. This is the best term for it, not statues or street art, because the public is involved, so you know you gotta think about the public response - intended and incidental - as well as the artist's intention.Older public art is particularly interesting because of change. Mostly - but not always - the artist's intentions don't change over time, but the public's reaction certainly does.<a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/TrafalgarSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrafalgarSquare</a> is a good example. It was built 180 years ago or so. Later than you might think, but earlier than I expected. It commemorates a naval battle of the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/NapoleonicWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NapoleonicWars</a>, but it wasn't originally going to - they were going to call it <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/WilliamIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WilliamIV</a> Square or something. The theme changed from <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/royalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#royalism</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/militarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#militarism</a>, but that change isn't visible in the statues.After 1815 and before about 1880, the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> was mainly <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a>, the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/WestIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WestIndies</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ireland</a>, and an archipelago of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#navy</a> bases dotted around the world. The <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedKingdom</a> was figuring out how to deal with its <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democratic</a> deficit, so there were a series of reactionary governments that paradoxically passed <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/ReformBills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReformBills</a> to extend the franchise. There were <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> riots, and an <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/industrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#industrial</a> boom, and huge cities - particularly <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#London</a>, but also <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Manchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manchester</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Birmingham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Birmingham</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Liverpool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liverpool</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Belfast</a> - growing like galloping weeds over the countryside. This was <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Dickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dickens</a> 's England. This was the time of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/TheMakingOfTheEnglishWorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheMakingOfTheEnglishWorkingClass</a>.So what did they mean at the time by building Trafalgar Square? It has <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> value. Lord <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Nelson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nelson</a> was a controversial figure in his own time, but I can imagine the Duke of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wellington</a> trying to link his own political fortunes to a safely-dead hero in the 1830s. The square was built with <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/parliamentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#parliamentary</a> approval and funding, and with quite a lot of public subscription too - though what a 'public' means in that context isn't obvious. Probably wealthy <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/industrialists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#industrialists</a>, the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/techbros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techbros</a> of the age, but I'm guessing.Since it was built, more - but much smaller - naval commemorations have been added. So its original goals weren't forgotten, but extended - artist intentionality changing over time.The <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Suffragettes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Suffragettes</a> used Trafalgar Square extensively for protests. I think we can reasonably link their use of the square to the original political use of the square. It was built in an era of Reform Bills that didn't reform the vote for <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a>. They could hardly do better than to make their protest clear in a space which modeled the thing they were protesting about - a powerful, militarist, partly-democratic England that didn't include women.<a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Labour</a> also used Trafalgar Square for protests. One of my favourite photos is of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/KeirHardy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KeirHardy</a> - the Keir who the current prime minister is named for - speaking from the base of <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/NelsonsColumn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NelsonsColumn</a> in 1908. You have to know about it, but Trafalgar Square is a labour monument.And to this day, Trafalgar Square is a traditional rally point for demonstrations and protests. No important London protest or demo happens without going through Trafalgar Square.This use of their commemorative art would be totally alien to people who funded its construction. They're more likely to have been the backers of the <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/PeterlooMassacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeterlooMassacre</a>.The square was famously sandbagged during the Second World War, to preserve it from being damaged, and I gather many Londoners at the time considered that to be symbolic of resistance and survival. So the art became invisible to the public, but people were still aware of it.These days, Trafalgar Square is a landmark of London, in many ways as iconic and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. That might please its builders, but probably wasn't what they expected. It's also a rendezvous point, with its tube station and its buses. A gathering place. It hosts incidental modern art on the famous empty plinth. Public art is inspirational. This is just Trafalgar Square - all the things I've seen give me the shivers when I think about how much embattled history is locked up in stone and bronze, under which people eat sandwiches, kiss lovers, wave placards, make speeches, and which get periodic paint douses, get stood on, relabeled and reinterpreted, dressed up and eventually pulled down.Another time I'll write about other public art I've seen. <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/StPetersburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StPetersburg</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.africa/tags/Moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moscow</a> are rather heavy on such art, but there is so much important stuff to say about it.

Max Gross"Few Aboriginal people would be offended by him and his acolytes refusing to stand in front of our flag. It would be offensive if they did, after all Dutton has said about us." <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AustraliaDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AustraliaDay</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a href="https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/01/25/duttons-deliberate-australia-day-cruelty#mtr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topic/2025/01/25/duttons-deliberate-australia-day-cruelty#mtr</a>

Max Gross"Australia could be a mature nation with a strong sense of its self. Instead, it remains a colonial outpost shackled to a would-be US dictator." <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/AustraliaDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AustraliaDay</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/britishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britishEmpire</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christofascism</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/26/today-could-be-a-day-for-soul-searching-instead-we-cling-to-a-distant-monarchy-in-denial-of-our-racist-past" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/26/today-could-be-a-day-for-soul-searching-instead-we-cling-to-a-distant-monarchy-in-denial-of-our-racist-past</a>

Sathnam SangheraToday’s British imperial legacy: the Royal Family 👑. Empireworld, the sequel to Empireland, is out in paperback on January 2. <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23royalfamily" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#royalfamily</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23britishempire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britishempire</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23imperiallegacies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#imperiallegacies</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23britishimperiallegacies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britishimperiallegacies</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23britishhistory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#britishhistory</a> <a href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23empireworld" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#empireworld</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7UffrwIIwA/?igsh=c3Vpa2o2NHRqcWdu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/reel/C7Uffrw...</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7UffrwIIwA/?igsh=c3Vpa2o2NHRqcWdu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Login • Instagram</a>

Peter J Fullagar 🌈Congrats to all those in the honours list. You have helped to perpetuate the dreadful and disgusting history of our ‘empire’. You could’ve declined. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AbolishHonours" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbolishHonours</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a>

Flipboard Culture DeskIn the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "blackbirders" lured, coerced and kidnapped thousands of Pacific Islanders for forced labor in Australia and Fiji. <a href="https://flipboard.com/@Smithsonianmag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Smithsonianmag</a> explains why.<a href="https://flip.it/JrNm4C" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/JrNm4C</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/PacificIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PacificIslands</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Fiji" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fiji</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a>

DoomsdaysCWExposed: The Oil and Gas Giants Profiting Most From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GazaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GazaGenocide</a>"The complicity of international <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporations</a> and governments in fueling Israel's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WarMachine</a> represents the latest chapter in a long history of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuel</a> companies enabling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a> and mass atrocities," said one campaigner. by Brett Wilkins Nov 14, 2024"On the fourth day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP29" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COP29</a>, in Azerbaijan, green groups highlighted how fossil fuel companies 'enable and profit from Israel's genocide in Gaza,' continuing 'a long history of the industry's complicity in mass atrocities worldwide.'"'The fossil fuel industry is culpable in death and destruction around the world, not only through the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> they cause but through the violence they fuel,' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilChangeInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilChangeInternational</a> said in a statement Thursday."'Every shipment of oil to Israel carries the weight of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestinian</a> lives.'"The group—along with others including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FriendsOfTheEarthPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FriendsOfTheEarthPalestine</a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PENGON" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PENGON</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TippingPointUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TippingPointUK</a> — is seizing the opportunity presented by COP29 to draw attention to an aspect of the Gaza war often overlooked amid the staggering death and destruction wrought by Israel's 13-month onslaught, which a United Nations panel on Thursday said is consistent with the 'characteristics of genocide.'"'Investor-owned and private <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilCompanies</a> supply 66% of oil to Israel—more than a third of that from major oil companies like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chevron</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Shell</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BP</a> — despite genocide warnings from the International Court of Justice [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICC</a>],' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilChange</a> said. 'BP is among the top corporate suppliers of oil to Israel. It operates and is the largest owner of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BTC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BTC</a> pipeline, which transports <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AzeriOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AzeriOil</a> that is ultimately sent to Israel.'"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BTCPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BTCPipeline</a> runs from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Baku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Baku</a> — the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Azeri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Azeri</a> capital and COP29 host city on the Caspian Sea —t hrough <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Azerbaijan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Azerbaijan</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georgia</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Turkey</a> and, according to Oil Change, supplies Israel with 28% of its oil, belying Thursday's claim by Turkish President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecepTayyipErdo%C4%9Fan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RecepTayyipErdoğan</a> that the country has severed all ties with Israel."An investigation published in September by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyEmbargoForPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyEmbargoForPalestine</a> showed how oil transported via the BTC pipeline is refined into jet fuel for Israel Defense Forces [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IDF</a>] warplanes.Oil Change continued:"BP has also been granted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GasExploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GasExploration</a> licenses in occupied Palestinian waters. By providing it with fuel, BP enables the Israeli government to commit genocide in Gaza. Chevron operates and partially owns the two largest Israeli-claimed fossil <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GasFields" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GasFields</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tamar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tamar</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Leviathan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Leviathan</a>, making it the main international actor extracting fossil gas claimed by Israel in the Mediterranean. In 2022, 70% of Israel's power was generated from fossil gas extracted by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chevron</a>. Through the millions of dollars it pays Israel for its gas extraction licenses, Chevron is also directly contributing to financing Israel's regime of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#apartheid</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SettlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SettlerColonialism</a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Occupation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Occupation</a>. "'The complicity of international corporations and governments in fueling Israel's war machine represents the latest chapter in a long history of fossil fuel companies enabling genocide and mass atrocities,' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MohammedUsrof" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MohammedUsrof</a>, a member of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PalestinianYouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalestinianYouth</a> Climate Negotiation Team at COP29 who lost 21 relatives to Israel's onslaught, said in a statement Thursday. 'Every shipment of oil to Israel carries the weight of Palestinian lives.'"Tipping Point U.K. organizer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SadieDeCost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SadieDeCost</a> said that 'BP originated as a key enabler of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a>, and continues as one of the top 10 largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonEmitters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarbonEmitters</a> in the world.'"'It operates and is the largest owner of the BTC pipeline, which ships Azeri oil to fuel Israel's genocide in Gaza,' DeCost added. 'BP's historic colonial harms continue through its support of violent regimes. Its emissions are estimated to cause hundreds of billions of dollars of loss and damage. We must shut down BP to end this injustice, and demand climate reparations for impacted communities around the world.'"Read more: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuels-gaza-genocide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuels-gaza-genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chevron</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOil</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IsraeliWarCrimes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BibiIsAWarCriminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BibiIsAWarCriminal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oiligarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CeasefireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CeasefireNow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeGaza</a>

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈"You should be grateful to us" says Brit Robert Jenrick to the Commonwealth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule</a>Ask yourself, "does pissing off global powers like India serve the UK's interests?" We cut ourselves off from our European neighbours, now we're cutting ourselves off from the Global South (the part of it that we abused) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Commonwealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commonwealth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tories</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RobertJenrick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertJenrick</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a>

Rita Singer📢 ERTHYGL NEWYDD 📢 NEW ARTICLE 📢 VALENTINE MORRIS (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner 'On his father's death in 1743, Morris inherited the Piercefield estate, along with substantial plantations in Antigua including a great number of enslaved people. These included Looby's, Crabb's, and Martin's in St Paul Parish in southern Antigua and Jolly's in St Mary Parish in western Antigua. In 1776, Morris was rated as owning 1,004 acres on the island, which was worked by 284 enslaved people. As Ivor Waters strikingly puts it, 'The elegant Valentine Morris owned Piercefield in Monmouthshire, worth £50,000 and Piercefield, a slave in Antigua, worth £10.' He was largely an absentee plantation owner while in Britain, apart from a visit to Antigua in 1754 following a period of drought there.' -- Adam CowardRead the full story here: <a href="https://biography.wales/article/s15-MORR-VAL-1771" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://biography.wales/article/s15-MORR-VAL-1771</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#histodons</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wales</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EighteenthCentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EighteenthCentury</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Bywgraffiadur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bywgraffiadur</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DiversityProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DiversityProject</a> Darlun/Image: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valentine_Morris_(1727-1789),_Governor_of_Saint_Vincent,_by_Allan_Ramsay.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valentine_Morris_(1727-1789),_Governor_of_Saint_Vincent,_by_Allan_Ramsay.jpg</a>

MatthewAnother part of our empire finally let go!Not as good as it first sounded (or maybe I misread it) - we'll still retain some control over the base on Diego Garcia - but still good news.Some years ago I met a family from Diego Garcia, whose parents had been forcibly deported by us from their home in the 60s along with every other inhabitant of the island. I hope one day their home is their own again.<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChagosIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChagosIslands</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BritishEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishEmpire</a>

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