Empire: booze and brews — Anita Anand and William Dalrymple
Anita Anand and William Dalrymple explore British Empire history through the lens of beverages, trade routes, and colonial commerce.
Why we picked this
Dalrymple and Anand have a rare ability to make imperial history feel alive and consequential rather than distant. Using beverages as a lens for colonial extraction is both unexpected and revealing.
Part of the Goalhanger Rest Is Fest weekend at the Southbank Centre, Anita Anand and William Dalrymple turn their Empire podcast into a live experience, exploring how beverages — tea, coffee, rum, gin — became instruments of colonial power and global trade.
Dalrymple, one of the foremost historians of the British Empire in India, and Anand, whose reporting and broadcasting has illuminated overlooked corners of imperial history, bring the kind of storytelling that makes you see the economic architecture of empire in your morning cup of tea.
Part of a full weekend of Goalhanger live podcast events at the Southbank Centre, September 4-6.