ARCHIVE: Imperial Ghosts: The British Empire, Britain’s Nostalgia For It & Its Damaging Effects

FIRST AIRED: 10/02/2021. We speak to Dr. James Trafford, author of The Empire at Home: Internal Colonies and the End of Britain, on Britain's relationship with its colonial past. He discusses Britain’s ongoing nostalgia for its imperial past and the problems it has caused in modern society, the Coronavirus vaccine and the British government’s imperial-era framing of the crisis, how racism in Britain today roots back to the racist colonisation during the British Empire, the colonial-style management of Britain at home and much more!

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