On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders the Black Watch waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of Cyprus. Today, Britons on sunbeds colonize the same stretch of sand, the latest visitors to an island which has long held a special place in the English imagination and a controversial role in British imperial ambitions.Drawing on largely unpublished material, Tabitha Morgan reflects on why successive administrations failed, so catastrophically, to engage with their Cypriot subjects, and how social segregation, confusion about Cypriot identity...
On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the men of the 42nd Royal Highlanders the Black Watch waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to begin the British occupation of...
