Inaccurate accounts of British Malta

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A well-known detractor of our British colonial period recently interviewed a local academic, on our university radio station, about his publication on the 1813-1814 plague in Malta.The interviewer immediately tried to steer the publication’s author to speculate whether the re-emergence of a plague so soon after the arrival of the British had anything to do...