Slave Empire. How Slavery Built Modern Britain, Hardback - Padraic X. Scanlan

The idea that the British empire was built on freedom is a myth. Britain rose to global power in the eighteenth century on the backs of enslaved wo...

The idea that the British empire was built on freedom is a myth. Britain rose to global power in the eighteenth century on the backs of enslaved wo...

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British Gods is a comprehensive survey of the state of religious faith in contemporary Britain, analysing how the status and nature of the differen...

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An exploration of what it means to be mixed race in the UK today.

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The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.

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In the thirty-five years before the Civil War, as it became increasingly difficult for those outside the world of politics to have frank and open d...

The untold stories of the British talent behind the biggest movie of all time... In the sweltering heat wave of 1976, the filming of Star Wars was ...

Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. In her explora...

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonia...

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Uncovering the scandal of Britain's disastrous treatment of independent countries after empire - and how these decisions are breaking Britain today...

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Mark Knights offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. Drawing on extensive archival...

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