‘History is written by the winners’, why not start with that?

Despite claims we live in some kind of glorious post-colonial world—where nation-states are free and independent, where Empire is a thing of the past—the world we live in and the history we learn is still very much narrated by the Anglosphere. I’ve become increasingly interested in the history of colonisation lately, both as a someone who’s lived my life on still-colonised land, and as a person with half my heritage, and extended family, in Malaysia—in a village they were forced to relocate to in the 1950s as part of a program that created prison-like camps to remove potential support for the armed anti-colonial independence movement, and in a country where the political party that British and Australian troops propped up remains in control nearly sixty years later.