This unsettling British children’s alphabet celebrated colonialism and conquest

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This late Victorian alphabet, written and illustrated by Mary Frances Ames (writing as Mrs. Ernest Ames), aims to teach young Britons their ABCs — along with a veneration for military might, empire, and colonialism.

At the end of the 19th century, the British Empire...

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