The Decline and Fall of Britain's Indian Empire

Event Type: Branch

Takes Place: 16th January 2025

Time: 20:00

Venue: Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way, London NW11 6YD

Description: The Victorian Raj in India cultivated its image of power and omniscience with great care: all Europeans were expected to uphold the image of innate western superiority, exhibited in western technology and British military might. Yet the reality was very different: not only was an increasingly vocal nationalist movement growing rapidly, but the very success of British rule contributed to its growing redundancy. The British were living on borrowed time – and, increasingly, they knew it.

How to book: Just turn up

Price: £5

Tel: 07818063594

Email: mandycaller@googlemail.com

Website: https://www.history.org.uk/branches/categories/864/resource/1489/hampstead-north-west-london-branch-programme

Organiser: Mandy Caller

Lecturer: Dr. Sean Lang

Comments: Dr Seán Lang is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, where he specialises in modern European history and the history of the British Empire. He has taught widely at school, sixth form and university level and is a regular broadcaster o

Region: London

Branch: Hampstead and North West London

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