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Toussaint L'Ouverture
The first known representations of Toussaint were included in a book by British admirer Marcus Rainsford, who published An Historical Account of the Black Empire in Hayti in 1805. Engravings in ...
Winston Churchill portrait to hang alongside 'colonialism' context
A portrait of Winston Churchill is going to ... He took little action in 1943 when a famine in India, then still part of the ...
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Portrait of King Charles Gives New Meaning to “Bloody Hell”
Work on the portrait began well before the coronation ... as a metaphor for the “bloodshed in the colonies during the British empire.” Others have been pouring in on X, Instagram, and TikTok ...
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What role did the British Empire play in the war?
Official portraits of Queen Mary and King George V in 1914. The British Empire was ruled by the Royal Family. It’s the same family that reigns today and the King at the time was Queen Elizabeth ...
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The Kohinoor and the sunset of Maharaja Ranjit Singh 's empire
as depicted in this portrait of him. After the Sikh empire was annexed by the British in 1849, one of the terms of settlement was that the Kohinoor be handed over. It was then cut down and ...
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What role did the British Empire play in the war?
Official portraits of Queen Mary and King George V in 1914. The British Empire was ruled by the Royal Family. It’s the same family that reigns today and the King at the time was Queen Elizabeth ...