The British Empire (TRIH ep 68)
1952 · Resource
Hosts Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland interview Sathnam Sanghera about his book Empireland. The conversation explores the complexity and contested nature of the British Empire — its mixture of greed, missionary zeal, culture, violence and bureaucracy — and the difficulty of reducing it to a simple moral balance sheet.
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Around 1952
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)