Zing Tsjeng visits Oxford to examine the ongoing controversy as universities across the UK reckon with their unsavoury connections to colonialism. People like slave owners, slave traders and white supremacists have historic connections to some of the UK’s finest universities. They don’t put that bit in the prospectus, but it’s the truth.

Empires of Dirt is a show about Europeans getting rich at the expense of everyone else. VICE World News host Zing Tsjeng uncovers the ugly history of the European colonial empires they don’t teach us in schools. Countries around the world were looted for their treasures, people were oppressed and exploited and European powers relentlessly profited. The far-reaching repercussions of colonialism are all around us, from our financial institutions to the food we have in our cupboards at home – and it’s about time we took notice.

Watch more from this series:

How Banks Made Money From Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUfMkIx7Ypg&t=1s

How Britain Stole $45 Trillion from India with Trains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jGPf764d0&t=161s

How Britain Got China Hooked on Opium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbHAWNQRV70&t=1s

Sugar & Slavery: The Building Blocks of Bristol’s 1%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4GtcMCTm_4

How the British Empire Exported Homophobia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQYu4iBNiQ


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