Museums & Institutions The British Museum Attempts to Co-Opt the Roman Empire Meme, Fails. Nobody found the museum's "jokes" about its ongoing "Legion" exhibition all that funny.

It lived for centuries, covered a quarter of the world's landmass and radically shaped modern-day Britain, yet schools have tended to sidestep the thorny history of the British Empire. Now, slowly, ...

Throughout its history, the British Empire has taken countless artifacts from its colonies and other countries. Governments and activists have since called for the repatriation of these cultural ...

I’ve been doing some reading around the British empire and art recently, leading me to reflect anew on reading I did in the study of English literature. All Sections. Dare to be Honest.

His card beside the bust points out that, as head of the British Empire, the atrocities documented in the exhibition took place under Queen Victoria’s watch. “She’s not innocent,” he writes.

Sanghera sardonically proposes an “Empire Day 2.0”—an update to the pro-empire holiday that was part of the British calendar from 1902 to 1958—to promote awareness about an imperial past ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

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The British center is not shying away from “engaging a diverse range of perspectives in dialogue with British art and history,” Droth ... She hopes to “open up questions about empire, ...