What they didn't teach us in school. An honest attempt to understand the reach, the methods, and the lasting consequences of British colonisation — territory by territory.
This resource exists because English education does not teach the colonised. We learn the dates of kings and the outcomes of wars, but rarely the experience of those on the other side of British power — the famines, the land seizures, the cultural destruction, the forced labour.
This is an attempt to fill that gap — working outwards from the British Isles themselves, where colonisation began at home with Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, before spreading across the globe. Each territory has its own page covering the history of colonisation, the key atrocities, and what the country looks like today.
A note on language: "English" and "British" are used loosely here, as they often are. The colonial project began under English monarchs but became a British enterprise after the Acts of Union. Scotland, in particular, was both colonised by England and an active participant in British colonialism abroad — both things are true.
Territories are grouped by their proximity — geographic and historic — to England. Internal colonisation first, then the near neighbours, then the world.