“mughal india was at the centre of global power, whereas england was very much a bit player”

When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers

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Matt Elton What do you see as the value of South Asian Heritage Month? And do you think this kind of specific history month is generally a good thing? Shalina Patel Black History Month was first marke

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Ellie Cawthorne Why was the winter of 1641–42 such a pivotal time in British and Irish history? Jonathan Healey In the heart of that winter came one of the most iconic moments in English political his

The global reach of the Indo-European mother tongue