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• Linda Colley:

  Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves Briti

• Linda Colley:

  In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce

• Linda Colley:

  In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of

• Linda Colley:

  For good or for ill, Britain is in some respects moving away from a prime-ministerial system toward

• Linda Colley:

  Irrespective of their party affiliation or wishes on the matter, those governing from 10 Downing St

• Linda Colley:

  High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dom

• Linda Colley:

  Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. L

• Linda Colley:

  The immediate impact of British imperial free-trading was often the collapse of local indigenous in

• Linda Colley:

  The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent b

• Linda Colley:

  Far from being aberrant and un-British, criticising a war in which our troops are actively engaged