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Welcome to the History Extra Podcast.

Fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine.

In 2021, Satnam Sangerra's best-selling book, Empire Land, catapulted the author into the eye of a media storm,

by exploring the divisive topic of Britain's Empire and its legacy today. Following the release of its follow-up, Empire World,

how British imperialism has shaped the globe,

Satnam spoke to Matt Elton about how it felt to make the headlines and how we might be able to have a constructive

national conversation about Britain's imperial past.

past. where you open the book which is on a holiday and the ways in which this holiday sort of helped paint and illustrate some of the themes you let it get into. Can you talk a bit about where you were,

what your holiday was like and how it did that I suppose? Yeah I went to Barbados on one of those, you know,

remember those first holidays we all did after COVID.

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