Item 74 - Heart of smugness

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Heart of smugness

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  • 23 July 2002 (Creation)

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1 colour woodcut print

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Man with skull instead of face wearing explorers outfit and with curly moustache holding a teacup and saucer with one foot standing on top of a black man waving the Union Jack. Picture is blood-splattered. Article discusses the casualties arising from British colonialisation, and how they are rarely recognised in history; whereas Belgian atrocities in the Congo are often referred to.
Illustration to accompany Tuesday Comment - Maria Misra, lecturere in Modern Histrory at Keble College, Oxford

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Copyright: Daniel Pudles

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