Watch The British Empire in Colour online: Episode 2 The Wind Of Change

Rare archive footage reveals how the communist insurgency in Malaya, the turbulent situation in Palestine and the Suez crisis all helped to undermine Britain's standing. Things were also changing in colonial Africa, where the peaceful rise of Kwamr Nkrumah in Ghana and the violent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya contributed to the political dismantling of the Empire

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