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1946: Empire Day - Speech by HRH Princess Elizabeth
Princess Elizabeth addresses the youth of the Commonwealth and the British Empire on Empire Day, 1946. Coming after the end of World War II, the speech commends the common ideals of 'freedom ...
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How the Christmas pudding, with ingredients taken from the colonies, became an iconic British food
Press coverage of London’s 1926 Empire Day celebrations featured the empire’s representatives pouring the ingredients into a ceremonial mixing bowl and collectively stirring it. The following ...
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Who were the Windrush generation and what is Windrush Day?
Windrush Day has been held on 22 June since 2018, to celebrate the contribution Caribbean migrants and their families have made to the UK. HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, in 1948 ...
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From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day
The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...
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British Empire Exhibition: The forgotten event that took the world to Wembley
Roman chariots were raced around Wembley Stadium as part of the exhibition's entertainment On St George's Day one ... British Empire Exhibition - and in doing so became the first UK royal to ...
On D-Day, the U.S. Conquered the British Empire
Only the British empire was expected to survive as the standard-bearer of imperialism, alongside two very different ...