https://englishempirehistory.blogger.de/ A blog on how the British Empire and its course throughout history until today Blogger.de annika heinze 2015-06-10T14:14:55Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://englishempirehistory.blogger.de/stories/2508635/ Scotland - the not quite so little part in the north of the United Kingdom. To some extend a mysterious country with its moors, mountains, incredible landscapes and legends. Since the beginning of the 18th century it has been legally and therefore officially been a part of the United Kingdom and therefore also of the British Empire. The Scottish fights and claims for independence have, unlike other parts of the British Empire, not yet led to the countries independence from Westminster and England,... Blogger.de annika heinze Copyright © 2015 annika heinze 2015-06-10T14:14:55Z https://englishempirehistory.blogger.de/stories/2506906/ The title I chose for this post is a quote from the Article by Robin Neillands, the one I wrote in my last post about. He said that Amritsar was a horrible incident in the history of the British Empire but that only a few people can think of another such incident. I didn't have to look too hard to find another incident. It wasn't a mass-shooting like at Amritsar but it was no less horrible and inexcusable: How the British behaved during the Boer War(s) In order to weaken the Boers the British destroyed... Blogger.de annika heinze Copyright © 2015 annika heinze 2015-06-03T16:39:46Z https://englishempirehistory.blogger.de/stories/2503794/ In this post I will reflect on a text we read at university for a British Studies class on the Empire. It is called 'A fighting Retreat - The British Empire 1947 - 1997' by Robin Neillands, from which we read a few extracts. The first thing that struck me was that Neillands wrote "On the whole the British left their Empire well and ruled wisely while it existed." This, in my opinion, is the perfect example for the sugar-coated view. The next line is "This view is not always popular. There has been... Blogger.de annika heinze Copyright © 2015 annika heinze 2015-05-22T14:17:35Z https://englishempirehistory.blogger.de/stories/2502313/ In the eyes of many British citizens the Empire was the greatest thing there has ever been. They fail to see the faults in it. One example, I already wrote about, is the Amritsar Massacre in 1919. Even the Prime Minister James Cameron is one of the people who seem so see the Empire in a "yes but" way: Yes horrible things happened but we left a legacy to the world - or something like this. When Cameron visited Amritsar in 2013 he said that "Im my view, we are dealing with something that happened a... Blogger.de annika heinze Copyright © 2015 annika heinze 2015-05-16T18:09:53Z https://englishempirehistory.blogger.de/stories/2500015/ "Some of them [former British colonies] may have problems that can be partly attributed to their colonial past, but they all owe their existence as states to the British Empire" This quote from a Newspaper Article, written by Stephen Glover for the Daily Mail is in my opinion more than controversial. It is true, that many former British colonies owe the fact of them being a state to the British Empire but it seems completely oblivious of the fact, that the British Empire did in fact not collect colonies... Blogger.de annika heinze Copyright © 2015 annika heinze 2015-05-07T07:09:46Z https://englishempirehistory.blogger.de/stories/2496823/ In 1922, just after the end of WWI, about 1/5th of the worlds population (at that time about 458 million people) were part of the British Empire, the largest Empire in history. Nearly 1/4 of the earth belonged to the British Empire and so the sun never really did set on it. It was so widely spread across the planet and different time zones that in some part of the Empire it was always daytime. One of the earliest British, if not the first, so called colony was Ireland. The settlement in Ireland... Blogger.de annika heinze Copyright © 2015 annika heinze 2015-04-25T13:32:05Z Search this site: q https://englishempirehistory.blogger.de/search