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The melancholy legacy of empire as the sun goes down on Britain’s last pink bits on the map
In 1924 Britain held sway over 400 million people in 58 countries across the globe, seven times larger than the Roman Empire ...
She Didn’t See Other Black Hikers. She Decided to Change That.
Motivated by the racial disparity she saw on trails, Rhiane Fatinikun founded Black Girls Hike to make Britain’s countryside ...
Partial remains of British climber believed found 100 years after Everest ascent
Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a British mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the ...
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Imperial reckoning
As Conservative MP Gareth Bacon put it, “Britain is under attack.” Into the midst of this contention came theologian Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023), a largely positive account of ...
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American and British climbers who lost tent and gear on Indian Himalayan peak rescued after 3 days
American and British climbers have been rescued after ... United States were ascending a rocky section of the Chaukhamba-3 peak in India’s Uttarakhand state when they got stranded there, said ...
'Age of electricity' to follow looming fossil fuel peak, IEA says
The world is on the brink of a new age of electricity with fossil fuel demand set to peak by the end of the decade, meaning surplus oil and gas supplies could drive investment into green energy, the ...
This Hindu king was never defeated by Britishers
Although the British eventually gained control over much of India, Yashwant Rao Holkar's resistance became a symbol of bravery and defiance against colonial forces. He became the only Hindu king whom ...