Rainy Empire Island ft. Charlotte Lydia Riley

Cursed Objects · Sep 5, 2023 · 1h 4m

Welcome to a new series of Cursed Objects! For the first episode back, very special guest historian Charlotte Lydia Riley brings in a souvenir mug commemorating the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 – where the very normal exhibits included a working coalmine, a model of the Prince of Wales sculpted out of butter, and… actual human beings brought back from the colonies to the metropole. Charlotte explains how groups like the Union of African Students pushed back, and the imperial undertones of Winnie the Pooh and Adrian Mole. We discuss Charlotte’s brilliant new book Imperial Island, about…