For today’s edition of NtHWS Extras, we’ll be covering a topic that’s been much in the news as of late: Cannabis laws.
Ganja use plays a significant role in Now the Hell Will Start, as it did in the lives of thousands of American GIs during World War II. The book’s main character became a devotee [...]
Entries Tagged as 'British Empire'
The Cannabis Debate, Circa 1894
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags:Assam·British Empire·drugs·India·Indian Hemp Drugs Commission·marijuana·Now the Hell Will Start·NtHWS Extras Month·World War II
The Migingo Spat
April 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments
To the untrained eye, Migingo Island appears to be no great shakes. It covers just a half-acre’s worth of Lake Victoria, and it’s covered with the tin shacks of fishermen. Yet Kenya and Uganda both covet the ramshackle rock, leading to a border row that threatens to lead to outright war. Ugandan marines overtook the [...]
Tags:Africa·British Empire·Kenya·Migingo Island·politics·Uganda
Convict Love Tokens
April 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
In response to yesterday’s post on trench art, one of Microkhan’s treasured Aussie readers turned us on to convict love tokens. These engraved coins were made by English convicts as they awaited deportation to Australia, during the island continent’s 19th-century turn as a massive penal colony. The token to the right was produced by an [...]
“…Are Doomed to Repeat It”
March 27th, 2009 · 8 Comments
As we prepare to ramp up Operation Enduring Freedom, as well as focus more intently on the Taliban’s Pakistani havens, it’s worth looking back at the British experience in the Graveyard of Empires. Of specific interest is the classic 1898 account The Risings on the North-West Frontier, a detailed account of several expeditions carried out [...]
