An old-fashioned Empire yarn released into a decolonising world which reveals much about imperial symbolism and the geopolitical anxieties of 1959.
Paddy Docherty is a historian & artist, with a particular interest in the British Empire and the history of film. He was educated at Oxford University and is the author of The Khyber Pass: a History of Empire and Invasion (Faber & Faber, 2007) and Blood and Bronze: the British Empire & the Sack of Benin (Hurst, 2021).
Paddy is represented by Charles Walker at United Agents.
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An old-fashioned Empire yarn released into a decolonising world which reveals much about imperial symbolism and the geopolitical anxieties of 1959.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 13th 1919 and how it fits the regular pattern of colonial violence.