Former Gov. Gen. Julie Payette invests Jeanette Corbiere Lavell, from Wikwemikong First Nation, Ont., as a Member of the Order of Canada outside Rideau Hall in Ottawa in September 2018.
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Canada’s new governor general will have to fuse the British, French, American and Indigenous elements of Canada that together are the core of the country.
The East India House, 1928. From ‘A History of Lloyd’s,’ by Charles Wright and C. Ernest Fayle.
Macmillan and Company Limited, London, 1928. Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images
The coronavirus epidemic has made us all rethink our workspaces. But the needs of the times have always influenced the office space – whether for the colonial empire or a growing commerce.
SIngapore Grip: the final book in JG Farrell’s Empire Trilogy.
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If we’re ever to move past outmoded values of gender, race and class, we need to wish Prince Harry and Meghan Markle well — and challenge those who would prefer everything remains the same.
Maxim guns agins the Ndebele of Zimbabwe in 1893.
Battle of the Shangani by Richard Caton Woodville, Jr. via Wikimedia Commons
The crisis of Conservatism of the early 20th century has some parallels for the party today.
A Zulu household, from an 1895 book called The Colony of Natal: An Official Illustrated Handbook and Railway Guide.
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A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
Sikh gurus adopted the turban, in part, to remind Sikhs that all humans are sovereign, royal and ultimately equal. But their attire can also lead to misunderstandings and at times, hate crimes.
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