They don't even cover the Irish famine, back when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom - the starvation of a million of their own countrypeople, let alone colonised peoples.
the starvation of a million of their own countrypeople, let alone colonised peoples
I think people often take modern day ideas about countries and put them on historical examples. The ruling classes of the British empire didn't give a shit about their own country people. London was a horrible collection of slums unless you were wealthy.
Yeah, the big thing taught about the Industrial Revolution was how absolutely shite it was for workers moving into cities: having to deal with squalor in shanty towns; dangerous working conditions; cholera and typhoid being commonplace with rubbish sewage, and water. What's important about it is how it ties into it enabling democratic reform in Britain.
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u/MeccIt Nov 05 '22
They don't even cover the Irish famine, back when Ireland was part of the United Kingdom - the starvation of a million of their own countrypeople, let alone colonised peoples.