the british empire primary sources??

does anyone have any good websites to find primary sources for the decline of the british empire or really, anything about the british empire?
-thank you :smile:

Reply 1

McGinger

Original post

by alina2367

does anyone have any good websites to find primary sources for the decline of the british empire or really, anything about the british empire?
-thank you :smile:

Useful Mooc (free short online course)
Empire - Online Course (futurelearn.com)

And a relevant BBC podcast
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The British Empire

Reply 2

Stiffy Byng

Also, get hold of a copy of The Oxford History Of The British Empire, and check out the source references in the final volume. Your school library might have a copy, or a large municipal library might have a copy.

On the Public Records Office site, you can hunt for Parliamentary reports and papers from the period 1945 to 1970, and earlier. Period newspaper reports of events such as the Irish War of Independence, the partition of India, Suez, the Malay Emergency, the Mau Mau uprising, the conflicts in Cyprus and Aden, UDI in Rhodesia, and so on, can be found online. Likewise reports of those transitions from Empire to Commonwealth which happened without bloodshed.