Faithful account of our takeover

AT its height, the British Empire ruled over a fifth of the world’s land surface and almost a quarter of its people.

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Scattered across the globe are the ruins of this empire, from slave fortresses and plantations to schools and railways. Billions of people have ancestors who were part of its story.

Over the next three weeks, award-winning historian (and Celebrity Traitors star) David Olusoga travels far and wide to recover this forgotten history and make sense of the lasting effects of British rule.