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How three colonial powers gained – and then lost – control over the straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb
The Portuguese, Dutch and British empires all vied for control over the vital shipping lane.
Indian Indentured Labour
Misha Glenny and guests discuss how, after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833, sugar planters recruited workers from India to replace or compete with their formerly enslaved labourers. Over the next 90 years, more than a million people in …
A ‘just and noble revolt’: The British rebel who backed the 1857 rebellion
The emergence of Britain as an imperial state was achieved through the resolution of internal contradictions — suppressing the voice of dissent, leaving only the voice of the establishment