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Sanghera sardonically proposes an “Empire Day 2.0”—an update to the pro-empire holiday that was part of the British calendar ... destruction of compromising official records, as Sanghera ...

The empire on which the sun never sets' is the most famous description of the British Empire — even ... a junior London postal official, a taxi-driver from Egypt, two schoolmasters and a missionary.

At the height of the British ... empire, Elkins says, because the old liberal imperial historiography focussed more on high policy—the stratagems of what Gallagher and his cohort termed the ...

He’s visiting a school where the boys wear “spotless white shirts” and “dark-blue blazers”, there’s a Latin motto, an official ... and thought of the British Empire reach around ...