Industrial Empire Archives

Industrial Empire

The connection between tea, coffee, clothes and an antique plate

Why did the Obas of Benin participate in the slave trade?

How much can we learn from Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua’s slave narrative?

Why did Britain and China go to war in 1840?

Did John D Clere get it right about the Indian Mutiny?

Could you bring Sir Harry Rawson to justice for the Benin Massacre?

Should the British Museum return the Benin Bronzes?

Was Letitia Bunting right to walk out of Zulu?

What can we learn from Sarah Baartman about attitudes towards empire in the 19th century?