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 to day anniversaries of some of the ugliest crimes of British imperialism.
All text on this website (except attributed quotations) Copyright Alisdare Hickson 2018.
UK REVERSES ITS POSITION ON GUANTANAMO, ACKNOWLEDGING THIS MIGHT INCREASE THE TERROR THREAT. An internal government memo dated 22 June 2018, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, and marked “Official Sensitive” noted that UK ministers would not oppose the US government sending two British terror suspects, Alexanda Kotey and Shafee El-Sheikh, to Guantanamo, although at the same…
OIL BLOW-OUT POISONS NIGERIAN FARMLAND [ 19 July 1970 ] A massive blow-out of an oil well, owned by the Anglo-Dutch multinational Shell in Ogoniland in South Eastern Nigeria, devastated farmland for many miles around, poisoning the water supply. One eyewitness describing an “ocean of crude oil… moving swiftly like a flood, successfully swallowing up…
WAZIRISTAN VILLAGES ‘UTTERLY DESTROYED’ – VILLAGERS LEFT TO FREEZE [ 7 February 1920 ] On 7 February 1920, a Reuters report from the North West Frontier described how British military operations in Waziristan ‘have now assumed a more punitive character, whole villages being utterly destroyed,’ adding that ‘the majority of the tribesmen are moving their…
BRITISH SOLDIERS OPEN FIRE ON DUBLIN CROWD AFTER CHILDREN THROW ORANGE PEEL On the evening of Sunday 26 July 1914 three Dubliners were shot dead by British troops on Bachelor Street. They were Mary Duffy, a 50 year old widow, Patrick Quinn, a coal labourer and father of six, and James Brennan, an eighteen year…
BRITISH CHAPLAIN SHOCKED BY THE BARBARITY OF HIS OWN ARMY [ 28 August 1842 ] On this day in 1842, during the advance of a British punitive expedition led by Major General Sir William Nott, the Reverend Isaac Allen recalled the indiscriminate slaughter of men in a fortified Afghan village, deemed to have been responsible…
“NO QUARTER BOYS !” – REDCOATS TAKE NO ZULU PRISONERS. [ 29 March 1879 ] Today in 1879, British cavalry and troops massacred hundreds of fleeing and wounded Zulu warriors at Kambula who had been fighting to defend their homeland, from a British invasion. MINISTER WARNS AGAINST ‘INTERFERENCE’ IN NAZI GERMANY’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS [ 29…
