Friday 22 June 2018
Rathbones Marquee - Wimpole Estate
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn’t trust the British in the dark
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The devious Brits ruled over an area that spanned, at its peak, about a quarter of the earth’s surface. Virtually every meal we eat today still contains a taste of empire – yet the bad odours of racism, colonialism and day-to-day violence also linger. Cambridge historians Piers Brendon and Lizzie Collingham probe the events in the Empire’s rise and fall, and examine its legacy, both good and bad.
Chaired by Sarah Stockwell, Professor in Imperial and Commonwealth History, King’s College London
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16:30 - 17:30