Drew Forrest looks at the role of Victorian laissez-faire in the terrible Irish famine
There are marked parallels between the two countries’ liberation wars
Britain consolidated its rapacious theft of territories in Africa and Asia during the reign of Elizabeth II’s great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
The late British monarch played a low-key role in helping to keep the commonwealth together through many disputes about race
The experience of studying Africa in London makes the writers question the validity of "African Studies" as is currently taught in Britain.