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👑Who was Rani of Jhansi, the warrior queen who fought the British?👑
❓What's the true story behind her legend?❓
⚔️How did she become the fierce leader that took on the East India Company?⚔️
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Next in our EPIC series on the 1857 Indian Mutiny: @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by author Ira Mukhoty to discuss the rebel leader known as India’s Joan of Arc!
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Who was Alice Seeley Harris?
Why was her Kodak Camera the most powerful weapon against King Leopold II's ruthless colonial rule?
How did she smuggle her photographs of the horrors going on in the Congo out of the country?
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Next up in our photography series, @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social discuss the woman who took on a brutal empire ... and won!
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Who was Karsh and how did he become one of the most famous portrait photographers of the 20th century?
How did Karsh escape from the Armenian Genocide as a child?
What was the story behind these famous shots?
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Join @anitaanand.bsky.social and @willdalrymple.bsky.social as they discuss the man who photographed some of histories' most famous faces:
🇬🇧 Winston Churchill 🇬🇧
☮️ Martin Luther King Jr.☮️
🇨🇺 Fidel Castro 🇨🇺
👑 Queen Elizabeth II 👑
To name just a few!
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Who was Heinrich Hoffman and how did he use his photography to promote Nazism?
When did Hoffman introduce Hitler to Eva Braun?
What lies did he tell a Jewish journalist who interviewed him in 1950?
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Kicking off our BRAND NEW Eyes on Empire series, @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social discuss the one of the most sinister cameramen in history ...
... Hitler's photographer
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🫢Who was V.S. Naipaul and why was he so controversial?🫢
🇹🇹 Did Naipaul change how readers saw Trinidad and Tobago, and the world? 🇹🇹
🥊 Why did he make an enemy of Salman Rushdie? 🥊
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For the LAST instalment of our Writers of Empire series,
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are joined by Pulitzer Prize winner, Benjamin Moser, to discuss the always divisive V. S. Naipaul
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Who was Basil D’Oliveira and why was South Africa's Apartheid government fearful of him making the England cricket squad?
Who was the first black cricketer to bat for The West Indies?
Why is The West Indies on the back foot in international cricket compared to other teams?
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For the last part of our cricket saga, @anitaanand.bsky.social is once again joined by cricket journalist, Tim Wigmore, to discuss the sport's history in The West Indies and South Africa!
@willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social are again joined by cricket journalist, Tim Wigmore, to explore the history of India's favourite pastime.
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🏏 How did Britain’s imperial game become so popular in India? 🏏
👶Why were India’s princes the ‘nepo babies’ of cricket?👶
🇵🇰 How does the legacy of Partition continue to affect matches in India and Pakistan today? 🇵🇰
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For the next part of our cricket mini-series, we turn to the country with the largest cricket fanbase in the world ...
🇮🇳 India 🇮🇳
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In today's episode, we look at the historic rivalry between England and Australia:
🔥 Where did The Ashes come from? 🔥
💀 What was the Bodyline Controversy that nearly killed a player? 💀
👑 Who was Don Bradman, 'the greatest sportsperson of all time?' 👑
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Joined by cricket journalist Tim Wigmore, @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social kick off their series on the colonial history of one of the world's most popular sports ...
🏏CRICKET🏏
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Following on from last week, @willdalrymple.bsky.social and @anitaanand.bsky.social dive into the complex history of everyone's favourite journalist with a quiff ...
... Tintin!
Listen now as @DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita grapple with viewing their favourite characters from childhood through the lens of imperial history...
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Two iconic children's cartoons created by illustrators with very sweet origin stories.
But how should we feel about the racism and imperialism within their pages today?
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What's the colonial history of your favourite cartoons?
In this episode...
🇫🇷Asterix and Obelix 🇫🇷 vs 🐘 Babar The Elephant🐘
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