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How Should the British Empire be Remembered?
Intelligence Squared
The New Generation Think Differently About Empire
I get the feeling that they feel about museums and empire in general. I remember going around Dudley-Zoo as a kid thinking, why is this tiger trapped in Dudley-Man? It's not right, you know? And I feel like the new generation definitely feel that about museums. You hear them from Asia complaining about their precious items being held by the British. A lot of children are going to school and saying, Miss, sir, teach me about colonialism. The curriculum doesn't generally give them the space for it. So they're having to improvise. Just talking about the curriculum, teaching the kind of history that you talk about is not part of the curriculum in England. There
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