Founded as a French colonial settlement in the 17th century, Saint-Louis was urbanised in the mid-19th century. It was the capital of Senegal from 1872 to 1957 and played an important cultural and ...

This object commemorates a short moment in the British colonial presence in Africa ... dangerous parts of the world (West Africa was known as "the white man's grave"), thousands of miles from ...

The Irish “piggybacked” on the often-violent and exploitative empire-building of the main European powers, according to a ...

When we think of World War One we tend to picture white men ... filled with the voices of Mall Singh and hundreds of other colonial soldiers offering a rare glimpse into their experience of ...