20 JUNE
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18 JUNE
REPORT FROM JAMAICA – GIBBETED SLAVES SURVIVE FOUR TO EIGHT DAYS [ 18 June 1760 ] A letter, dated the 18 June 1760, from the British Caribbean territory of Jamaica and subsequently published in newspapers across England, Scotland and Ireland, described, with a grudging respect, the resilience of slaves who ‘are gibbeted alive in terrorem…
26 OCTOBER
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…
26 MAY
SLAVE OVERSEER’S DIARY NOTES ON A SUMMER OF DEPRAVED TORTURE [ 26 May 1756 ] Today in 1756 in Jamaica, plantation overseer Thomas Thistlewood, who was unusual in keeping meticulous notes on the punishments he meted out to the slaves under his care, noted in his diary the depraved punishment given to a hungry slave,…
10 OCTOBER
BRITISH BLOW UP THE GREAT BAZAR OF KABUL – “AN INEXCUSABLE ACT OF VANDALISM” [ 10 October 1842 ] On this day in 1842 British troops under the command of Major-General Sir George Pollock, following the instructions of India’s Governor General, Lord Ellenborough, to leave “some lasting mark of the just retribution of an outraged…
14 APRIL
BRITISH MILITIA MASSACRE HUNDREDS OF BARBADIAN SLAVES [ 14 April 1816 ] On Easter Sunday, 14 April 1816, the slaves of Barbados rose up against their British masters. THE R.A.F. STRAFE AND BOMB A SCHOOL AND CROWDS AT GUJRANWALA [ 14 April 1919 ] Today in 1919, Michael O’Dwyer, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab,…
3 AUGUST
BRITISH AIRWAYS’ DOUBLE STANDARDS A letter published on 3 August 2018 in the Guardian and signed by leading LGBTQIA+ activists and several MPs, condemned British Airways for profiting from its willing cooperation in the deportation of failed asylum seekers who had been persecuted for their sexuality, while at the same time sponsoring the UK’s largest…