13 June 1965 – Tony Benn comments in his diary regarding the situation in Vietnam that “the Americans are now deciding to invade in full strength and we are left in the embarrassing position of appearing to support them.”
UP TO 128 CAPTURED MAORIS STRIPPED NAKED AND SHOT ‘LIKE DOGS’ [ 5 January 1869 ] It was a crime which Maoris have never forgotten, committed when New Zealand, though technically self-governing, was still, both in name and in the thinking of much of its settler population, a colony of Great Britain. CHURCHILL SLASHES SHIPPING…
Inglorious moments deleted from mainstream history – A daily reminder of how Britain has always acted ruthlessly to deter dissent and democracy. “The reason why the sun never sets on the British Empire is because God doesn’t trust the British in the dark“ — Anon Please return regularly as I continue to post more day…
LORD ELGIN’S NOTES ON “LIVING AMONG INFERIOR RACES” [ 21 August 1857 ] On this day in 1857 Lord Elgin makes some observations in his diary about British attitudes to Indians in the Raj – “It is a terrible business, however, this living among inferior races… There are some three or four hundred servants in…
‘HEADS (OF BLACKS) FIXED ON POLES IN VARIOUS PARTS’ OF DEMERARA [ 18 December 1823 ] Following a mostly non-violent slave insurrection in the British colony of Demerara (now Guyana) in August 1823, in which the plantation owners had been locked into their homes, Governor Major General John Murray imposed a savage crackdown, shooting dead…
THE SACKING OF MULTAN – 2 JANUARY 1849 On 2 January 1849, British redcoats, under the command of Brigadier-General the Honourable Henry Dundas, raped, pillaged and murdered hundreds of civilians, after fighting their way into the city of Multan, located in what is today the province of Punjab in Pakistan. Historian Saul David comments that…
BRITISH WITNESS GIVES HARROWING ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF INDIAN MUTINEERS AT AHMEDABAD 26 October 1857 – A British witness gave a graphic account of the bloody aftermath of the execution, by being blown apart by cannon, of Indian mutineers at Ahmedabad. It was subsequently published in several British newspapers. “I walked straight to the…
