Sources Criticising the British Empire


Chamberlain as the 'Grim Reaper'


Wearing his characteristic monocle, Joseph Chamberlain, British Colonial Secretary during the Boer War, rakes up the dead in this powerful French cartoon. Much of the world blamed Chamberlain for the war, though he claimed that he made strenuous attempts to avert its outbreak.


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by Stephen Luscombe