{"id":37391,"date":"2017-02-26T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37391"},"modified":"2017-07-29T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T17:31:09","slug":"british-historys-biggest-fibs-with-lucy-worsley-episode-3-the-jewel-in-the-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/26\/british-historys-biggest-fibs-with-lucy-worsley-episode-3-the-jewel-in-the-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"British History&#8217;s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley Episode 3: The Jewel in the Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KV42wWz_18w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 10 Feb 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the final episode, Lucy debunks the fibs that surround the &#8216;jewel in the crown&#8217; of the British Empire &#8211; India. Travelling to Kolkata, she investigates how the Raj was created following a British government coup in 1858. After snatching control from the discredited East India Company, the new regime presented itself as a new kind of caring, sharing imperialism with Queen Victoria as its maternal Empress.<\/p>\n<p>Tyranny, greed and exploitation were to be things of the past. From the &#8216;black hole of Calcutta&#8217; to the Indian &#8216;mutiny&#8217;, from East India Company governance to crown rule, and from Queen Victoria to Empress of India, Lucy reveals how this chapter of British history is another carefully edited narrative that&#8217;s full of fibs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 10 Feb 2017 In the final episode, Lucy debunks the fibs that surround the &#8216;jewel in the crown&#8217; of the British Empire &#8211; India. Travelling to Kolkata, she investigates how the Raj was created following a British government coup in 1858. After snatching control from the discredited East India Company, the new regime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,23],"tags":[363,1149,807,838,396,269,315],"class_list":["post-37391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-india","tag-corruption","tag-eastindiacompany","tag-expropriation","tag-hinduism","tag-monarchy","tag-propaganda","tag-wealth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9J5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37392,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37391\/revisions\/37392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}