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Police face rioters during anti-British protests in Cairo, January 1952. Though Britain likes to believe that the decolonisation process across its empire was ‘clean’, it was in fact very violent, says Charlotte Lydia Riley. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

Interview Charlotte Lydia Riley: “We need to get rid of the idea that Britain was humanitarian in its imperialism. That needs to go” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The boy that emperor Nero made his ‘wife’: what the tragedy of the castrated Sporus tells us about homosexuality in ancient Rome

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