Erik Linstrum is a historian of modern Britain in its imperial, European, and global contexts. His most recent book, Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire, is a history of war coming home.

11.04.2025

• Erik Linstrum

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.