Nigerian court orders UK to pay $572 million to families of miners killed during colonial rule

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay 20 million pounds to each family of 21 coal miners killed in 1949.
The Conversation

Israel: unpopular judicial reform involves repeal of law set up under British colonial rule in Palestine – here’s what that tells us

Anne Irfan receives funding from the British Academy to research the origins of international refugee and mobility policies. Israel’s parliament has voted to significantly shrink the power of the ...

Ex-CJI Chandrachud lauds book for dismantling 'political mythology' of colonial benevolence

Former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has praised a new book for rigorously dismantling the "political mythology" surrounding the British colo ...
The Nation

Worldwide Devastation

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...
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Colonial chiefs who helped establish British rule were cruel and no-nonsense

The death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8 has brought back memories of how the British colonial administration used chiefs and headmen to maintain control over Kenya. Discussions with the ...
OPB

Not everyone mourns the queen. For many, she can’t be separated from colonial rule

Queen Elizabeth II’s death has garnered a spectrum of feelings around the world about her life, legacy and the monarchy. When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population ...
Hartford Courant

Connecticut lawmakers apologize for witch hangings; note verdicts reached during British colonial rule

The state House of Representatives on Wednesday offered absolution, though pointedly not exoneration, to the nine women and two men hanged for witchcraft in 17th-century Connecticut, a dark and ...
The Diplomat

Can You Separate the Monarch from the Colonial, or Rather, Should You?

What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims India’s decision to fly its flag at half-mast for Queen Elizabeth, someone who was also a colonial ruler until her last ...