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The British Empire is now the subject on which the sun never sets

5 December 2020

9:00 AM

5 December 2020

9:00 AM

Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire Priya Satia

Robinson, pp.464, 25

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain Padraic X. Scanlan

Allen Lane, pp.384, 25

Wrestling with the history of the British Empire is the unfinished and unfinishable project of our history. Time’s Monster takes a meta-approach to this. Its author Priya Satia has read widely, and has written essentially a cultural history of the Empire from the early modern period to today, of the way Britain’s colonial expansion has been interwoven with the culture.

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