Nigel Biggar's Blog, page 45
April 6, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Fabulous, but please do remember that of the 1500 rifles defending Kohima on 4 April 1944 about 450 were British, the ‘others’ were Assam Regiment, Assam Rifles and Nepalese Shere Regiment.
Fabulous, but please do remember that of the 1500 rifles defending Kohima on 4 April 1944 about 450 were British, the ‘others’ were Assam Regiment, Assam Rifles and Nepalese Shere Regiment.
RT by @NigelBiggar: Suggest you read mine. Might change your mind.
https://openthemagazine.com/essay/jud...
Suggest you read mine. Might change your mind.
openthemagazine.com/essay/ju…
RT by @NigelBiggar: Krishan Kumar from the University of Virginia will deliver an online lecture on Empires in World History.
Friday 28th April at 4.00pm.
Register here👇
https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/event-...
Krishan Kumar from the University of Virginia will deliver an online lecture on Empires in World History.
Friday 28th April at 4.00pm.
Register here👇
historyreclaimed.co.uk/event…
RT by @NigelBiggar: This discovery clearly demonstrates that #restitution claims are often not as simple as some would want us to believe. If the Obas sold people to make the plaques, do they really have a moral right to get them back?
This discovery clearly demonstrates that #restitution claims are often not as simple as some would want us to believe. If the Obas sold people to make the plaques, do they really have a moral right to get them back?
RT by @NigelBiggar: "What I find strange is ppl genuinely denying to themselves that cultural & social elites are by some distance more progressive than the public & they have a huge bearing on the country’s direction". Ed West on some of the bizarre react
"What I find strange is ppl genuinely denying to themselves that cultural & social elites are by some distance more progressive than the public & they have a huge bearing on the country’s direction". Ed West on some of the bizarre reactions to my new book
edwest.substack.com/p/the-et…
April 5, 2023
RT by @NigelBiggar: Simply bonkers
Simply bonkers
RT by @NigelBiggar: It was an unjust and perverse review
It was an unjust and perverse review
RT by @NigelBiggar: Yesterday, I finished reading @NigelBiggar's great book "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning." It's a strong rejoinder to simplistic, ideology-laden interpretations of history. It's also a reminder how much the stories we tell ourselves shap
Yesterday, I finished reading @NigelBiggar's great book "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning." It's a strong rejoinder to simplistic, ideology-laden interpretations of history. It's also a reminder how much the stories we tell ourselves shape our understanding of objective facts.
RT by @NigelBiggar: That’s disappointing
That’s disappointing
RT by @NigelBiggar: @AspectsHistory @History_Reclaim @robert_lyman @DouglasKMurray It turns out that Pratinav Anil, not content with writing a review of 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning' for The Times, also wrote the anonymous one in The Economist. Read my
@AspectsHistory @History_Reclaim @robert_lyman @DouglasKMurray It turns out that Pratinav Anil, not content with writing a review of 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning' for The Times, also wrote the anonymous one in The Economist. Read my riposte here: nigelbiggar.uk/2023/04/01/th…
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