Piers Brendon

Piers Brendon is a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and a former keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre. His latest book is The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Jonathan Cape, 2007).

A moral audit of the British empire

The moral balance-sheet of the British empire is a chaotic mixture of black and red. So it is understandable that people today, trying to evaluate this momentous episode in what

By Piers Brendon

/ 6 Nov 2007