EverydayEmpire

Highlighting how the glorification of Empire is a common feature of modern Britain. And why this isn't a good thing. Please share examples. By @_storywallah

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[anita anand @tweeter_anita]

Absolute honour to unveil the #blueplaque for #TheAyahsHome @EnglishHeritage with my sister and idol @MeeraSyal . Would never have happened without Rozina Visram @FlorianStadler8 and most of all Farhana Mamooji who championed the project.

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💜 this!

From Central Asia to community kitchens in Punjab and then, via Partition and the Punjabi diaspora, into Delhi and North India, and the wider dunya 🌍

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

A history of the Tandoor and how migrants of the 1947 partition introduced Delhi to the celebrated culinary tradition, a thread (1/)

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Very interesting thread; the comments are super illuminating too.

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When I was doing GCSE/Alevel history I was made to see the headmaster as I wanted to do my special project on India independence but HAD to do European history & the French revolution.

If I'd studied the below I would have loved the French Revolution even more 🇫🇷🐯🇮🇳

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

Did you know that before the fires of the revolution destroyed the Bastille, an Indian entourage made their way to the French capital and became the talk of the town, influencing French fashion to a certain extent. A thread on this fascinating piece of history. 1/14

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If there was one pic to sum Britain's colonial nostalgia (or melancholia h/t @bungatuffie), it would be this.

What a spectacular own goal

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Would pay to see this

[Nihal Arthanayake @TherealNihal]

I wonder if we will ever see a powerful Commonwealth head of state turn up in the UK and be filmed dancing a traditional dance with white British people for the cameras?

[Corinne Fowler @corinne_fowler]

https://t.co/XktM20gAZM is a free online course by the #ColonialCountryside project about the Royal African Company, the East India Company and much more

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The royals & colonialism 101

[Corinne Fowler @corinne_fowler]

1. Many journalists are asking what the Royal family has to do with colonialism. I'll just cover the basics. Elizabeth I gave her ships to English slave trading voyages by John Hawkins in the 1560s. Slave-trading didn't begin in earnest, though, till the reign of Charles II.

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🏉 When England play Scotland in the #SixNations they play for the Calcutta Cup 🇮🇳 ???

Despite watching international rugby, I've never known why. Until today... (Should have guessed the trophy features an elephant 🏆🐘).

https://t.co/lbgM0WLHaC

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Fascinating!

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🗣️“The BBC has a great opportunity to acknowledge the legacies of empire & show people how intimately bound up the global history of Britain is in the personal or the private collections of families and households across the country” @profdanhicks 👏🏾

https://t.co/V9QS7jv9UJ?

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🗣️“The BBC has a great opportunity to acknowledge the legacies of empire & show people how intimately bound up the global history of Britain is in the personal or the private collections of families and households across the country” @profdanhicks 👏🏾

https://t.co/V9QS7jv9UJ?

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Quite

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🚨 Essential viewing alert @Sathnam's doc #EmpireStateofMind

📆 Nov 20, 9pm

📺 @Channel4

Featuring the Earl of Powis...

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Incredible map 👀

(TW nasty racism if you scroll up)

[Sports, Art & Inspiration @SW_SportsWord]

@ejrainfordbrent Countries that had to ask Britain to leave... 🗺

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Great thread

As I'm sure most of you know, loot is a Hindi (probably Urdu too) word meaning to steal and ransack during war/riot.

The fact that loot is a 'normal' English word tells you all you need to know about the closeness of India & Britain's colonial connections 🇮🇳🇬🇧

[Fatima Manji @fatimamanji]

But how did it arrive in the UK? In 1799, after defeating Tipu Sultan in south India, East India Company soldiers began to seize loot. Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) wrote: “scarcely a house in the town was left unplundered”. Another report speaks of “carnage”

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Sorry for lack of posting in recent months/last couple of years!

Pandemic + baby (now toddler) twins = zero headspace.

Hoping to post more regularly and seeing as histories of Empire are at the heart of culture war bs 💩 there's no shortage of fascinating, revealing examples

[Corinne Fowler @corinne_fowler]

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[Colonial Countryside @ColonialCountr1]

Thread 1. The below is one of 7 common objections to talking about slavery in heritage sites and museums. Here are the others: #ColonialCountryside