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“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the…

— Charles Emmerson

Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able to admit…

— Nelson Mandela

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call 'empire' spans…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

— Lord Harlech

“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire to spread…

— Scott Anderson

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

— Robert Trout

For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they…

— Mark Steyn

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account…

— Denise Lewis

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's…

— Linda Colley

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose…

— Stuart Hall