#britishempire — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #britishempire, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/35857/ UK Greens Reparations Activist Revealed to Be Descendant of Wealthy Slave Traders #ancestors #BritishEmpire #Controversy #ForeignAffairs #GBNews #GreenParty #Nigeria #ProgressiveActivists #RacialJustice #reparations #SlaveTrade #slaves #UK #UKGreens #UnitedKingdom
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
https://piefed.social/c/forgottenweapons/p/2056521/monkey-tail-breech-loading-carbine-uk-1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
https://piefed.social/c/forgottenweapons/p/2056521/monkey-tail-breech-loading-carbine-uk-1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/2056518/monkey-tail-breech-loading-carbine-uk-1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/2056518/monkey-tail-breech-loading-carbine-uk-1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
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"Monkey Tail" breech-loading carbine, UK, 1865
https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/2056518/monkey-tail-breech-loading-carbine-uk-1865
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Turns out playing "Divide and Rule" on a country for a hundred fucking years has some knock-on effects on the formation of national institutions
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Bus in Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1929
https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2054218/bus-in-kowloon-hong-kong-1929
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Bus in Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1929
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Bus in Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1929
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Virgin Brits vs. CHAD INDIAN ROCKET KING
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2050319/virgin-brits-vs-chad-indian-rocket-king
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Virgin Brits vs. CHAD INDIAN ROCKET KING
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2050319/virgin-brits-vs-chad-indian-rocket-king
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Virgin Brits vs. CHAD INDIAN ROCKET KING
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2050319/virgin-brits-vs-chad-indian-rocket-king
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Virgin Brits vs. CHAD INDIAN ROCKET KING
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2050319/virgin-brits-vs-chad-indian-rocket-king
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Virgin Brits vs. CHAD INDIAN ROCKET KING
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2050319/virgin-brits-vs-chad-indian-rocket-king
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#KemiBadenoch says that the #UK was built on #FossilFuels.
But #Ecotricity founder #DaleVince dismisses Bad Enoch's fantasy. He says that the UK was "built on slavery, on racism, on colonialism, on Empire. We abused the rest of the world to be a rich country"
Dale Vince is of course entirely right. So his comments should be commonplace and unworthy of sharing.
But the UK has never de-imperialised. So Dale is on his own. 😡
#ukpol #BritishEmpire #colonialism #slavery #racism #imperialism
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Brits celebrate VE Day ...
because after invading 90% of all countries, they are obsessed with the one time when they might not be the baddies, cos the other guy was yer actual feckin Hitler 🙄
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"What ABOUT the people who actually live there?" - Colonizing Powers
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British anti-aircraft battery engages a German Zeppelin, WW1 (Peter Dunn)
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British anti-aircraft battery engages a German Zeppelin, WW1 (Peter Dunn)
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British anti-aircraft battery engages a German Zeppelin, WW1 (Peter Dunn)
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The Brits were a little sore over those rockets from India
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The Brits were a little sore over those rockets from India
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The Brits were a little sore over those rockets from India
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The Brits were a little sore over those rockets from India
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The Brits were a little sore over those rockets from India
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“since this first volume of his purported ‘memoirs’ was published recently in the US, all decked out with notes and glossary, no fewer than 10 out of 42 reviewers—one of them a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University—have been gulled into taking Flashman seriously”
—review of the first FLASHMAN novel in TIME Magazine, 1969
3/3
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,901382,00.html
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #historicalfiction #Flashman #humour #BritishEmpire
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“the books add up, by design or otherwise, to one of the most sustained and damning condemnations of imperialism in popular literature”
Matthew Calyfield on the continuing relevance of George MacDonald Fraser’s FLASHMAN novels
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https://meanjin.com.au/latest/why-read-the-flashman-papers-today/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #historicalfiction #Flashman #humour #BritishEmpire
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A patriotic birthday salute to Brigadier-General Sir Harry Flashman, VC, KCB, KCIE, etc. etc. – born #OTD, 5 May, 1822. As his extraordinary entry in WHO’S WHO (c.1908, below) shows, Sir Harry embodied all those qualities that built & sustained the #BritishEmpire 🇬🇧 🫡
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Sir Harry’s storied career is too long for the ALT-text, but you can read it here:
https://sblazak.wordpress.com/sir-harry-flashman/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #historicalfiction #Flashman #humour #BritishEmpire
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/18215/ Zohran Mamdani suggests he would ask King Charles to return Koh-i-noor diamond #BritishEmpire #colonisation #CrownJewels #gdnpfpnewsuk #gdnpfpnewsworld #guardian #GuardianNews #KingCharles #KingCharlesIII #KohINoor #KohINoorDiamond #MamdaniKing #NewYork #NewYorkMayor #news #PunjabAnnexation #ReturnKohINoor #uk #UKRoyals #world #ZohranMamdani
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Also France: "Just send them to Canada or Louisiana or something idk"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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Maritime Empires be like
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1997183/maritime-empires-be-like
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Colonialism was horrific, and soaked down into the bones of the societies that practiced it
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LOOKS LIKE KRAUT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS
https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense/p/1993254/looks-like-kraut-s-back-on-the-menu-boys
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LOOKS LIKE KRAUT'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1993251/looks-like-kraut-s-back-on-the-menu-boys
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Warming pan, UK, ~1720 AD
https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/1990966/warming-pan-uk-1720-ad
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Warming pan, UK, ~1720 AD
https://piefed.social/c/historyartifacts/p/1990966/warming-pan-uk-1720-ad