Caroline Elkins

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

Recent Articles

Even During Queen Elizabeth II's Reign Violence Was Central to the Empire

From Northern Ireland to Kenya to Malaya, Queen Elizabeth II oversaw violence during her reign across the shrinking British Empire

By Caroline Elkins

Britain Can No Longer Hide Behind the Myth That Its Empire Was Benign

Imperial history wars, long-simmering in Britain, exploded when Black Lives Matter crossed the Atlantic in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Protestors, clad in black face masks, marched to London’s Parliament Square in June 2020,...

By Caroline Elkins
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