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Displacing the Natives in Early British Malta: Bastion Burials, Tournaments and Gibbets

March 31, 2020 · David Edward Zammit ·

As British colonial rule successfully employed various tactics to legitimize its control over the Maltese fortifications, so the needs of the civilian Maltese inhabitants living within these fortifications were progressively subordinated to those of the island fortress.

Tagged With: British rule, colonialism

How British Colonial Rule Took Advantage of the Maltese Carnival

March 1, 2019 · David Edward Zammit ·

It was through their ‘tolerance’ of Carnival and other Catholic rituals, that the British aimed to freeze the flow of time in order to actively prevent social change from taking place in Malta.

Tagged With: British rule, Carnival, colonialism

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