Charlotte Lydia Riley
Charlotte Lydia Riley is a historian of 20th-century Britain at the University of Southampton, specializing in questions about empire, politics, culture and identity. She is author of “Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain” and editor of “The Free Speech Wars.”
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Britain’s Imperial Past Has Become a Battleground in the Culture Wars
For the last decade, the question of who gets to interrogate historical questions, and why they are motivated to do so, has become very fraught in Britain. The topics that have become most central to this controversy are the British Empire, British imperialism, and ideas about race, identity and belonging in the British nation.