Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
The British Empire went through numerous permutations between 1600 and 1960 yet the conventional view, dominant in universities and the mainstream media, is that it was a morally deplorable exercise in colonialism, racism, brutal exploitation and violence. This view of the empire is not merely an act of historical revisionism, it also legitimates a progressive assault on British institutions in the present.
The British Empire went through numerous permutations between 1600 and 1960 yet the conventional view, dominant in universities and the mainstream media, is that it was a morally deplorable exercise in colonialism, racism, brutal exploitation and violence. This view of the empire is not merely an act of historical revisionism, it also legitimates a progressive assault on British institutions in the present.
