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Sudan Communist Party
Sudan Defence Force
Sudan Loyalty Book
Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA)
Sudan Political Service
and sexual austerity
Sudan Times
Sudan Tribune
Sudanese Legislative Assembly
Suez Canal
Suez crisis
sugar
Sunday Times
Supayalat, Queen
Sweden
Switzerland
Sykes, F, H.
Sykes, Sir Mark
Sykes–Picot Agreement
Symes, E. S.
Symes, Captain Michael
Symes, Colonel Sir Stewart
Syria
Taiwan
Tanganyika
Tara Devi, Maharani
Tashkent
Teagle, Walter
Teheran
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Thailand
Than Shwe
Tharrawaddy
Thatcher, Margaret
Thein Sein
Thesiger, Wilfred
Thibaw, King of Burma
Thirkell White, Herbert
Thomas, Graham
Thomas, Ismay
Thomas, J. H.
Tiananmen Square massacre
Tibet
Tigris, River
Time magazine
Times, The
and Flora Shaw
and Iraqi oil
Tito, Marshal
Tokyo
Torit mutiny
Trades Union Congress
Transjordan
Transvaal
Treaty of Amritsar
Treaty of Nanking
Trench, Sir David
Trigge, Joseph
Trinity College, Cambridge
Tripoli
Trotsky, Leon
Truman, Harry S.
Truman, Hanbury, and Buxton
Tsang, Donald
Tunis
Turkestan
Turkey
Turkish Petroleum Company
Twain, Mark
Tyrwhitt-Drake, Charles
U Oktama
U Saw
U Tin Tut
Uganda
Umm Diwaykarat, Battle of
Umma Party
UNESCO
United Africa Trading Company
United Committee for the Prevention of the Demoralization of Native Races
United Nations
and Kashmir
‘oil for food’ programme
and Sudan
United Service Club
United States of America
and Burma
and Hong Kong
invasion of Iraq
and Kashmir
and ‘Manifest Destiny’
and Nigeria
oil interests
and Sudan
University of Hong Kong
University of Khartoum
US Army Air Force
Uzbekistan
Vansittart, Lord
Vatican
Venezuela
Venice
Versailles Treaty
Victoria, Queen
and annexation of Burma
and Kitchener
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria College
Vienna
Vietnam
Vietnamese boat people
Virgil
Voice of America
Voltaire
Wagner, Richard
Wallace Brothers
Wani, Ashfaq Majid
Ward, Colonel
Washington
Waterhouse, Sir Ronald
Waterloo, Battle of
Wavell, Lord
Wellesley, Dorothy
Wellington, Duke of
Wellington College
Wells, H. G.
West African Frontier Force
Westminster, Duke of
Westminster Abbey
Westminster School
White, Major General Sir George
white elephants
Wilson, Arnold
Wilson, Harold
Wilson, Woodrow
Winchester College
Wingate, Sir Reginald
Wise, John
Wolseley, Sir Garnet
women’s suffrage
Woodman, Dorothy
Woosung Camp
world order
Wright, Patrick
Wu, Gordon
Yates, Bob
Yom Kippur War
Yorkshire
Yoruba Action Group
Yoruba people
Young, Sir Mark
Younghusband, Eileen
Younghusband, Sir Francis
Yunan province
Zaghloul, Saad
Zambesi, River
Zhou Enlai
Zubeir, Haj
Zulu War
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents in 1975. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won one of the University Classical Scholarships and graduated with a double first in Classics and History; and at Harvard University, where he spent a year as a Kennedy Scholar. He returned to Cambridge to complete a PhD in history before working as an analyst for a hedge fund in London. He was recently elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament.
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