A Lion and Unicorn bicker and backchat the birth of Britain's Empire from failure and shortsighted idiotic misgivings into a disastrous and terrifying force that scarred the world forever more.
The British Museum, home to many riches of the world Empire has "acquired" and a Royal crest where our two narrators Lion and Unicorn are shackled to. Its from this vantage they discuss to the start of empire and lead into the Olde World. We're introduced to Henry VII and his Royal desperation to get the gold riches they saw other nation's acquire, whether through piracy, discovery, coercion or conflict ultimately leading to growing and trading commodities and the start of the British East India Company, we are taken on a trip to Africa, North America and the genocide of it's first nation, colonizing through force many island nations, inter colonial conflict, land grabs, dispossession, racism, commercial servitude, expropriation, mutinies, revolts, wars, civil disobedience, and the and ending in 1661 with the enslaving and categorizing of black and white people by the British and origin of racism in the Slave Act.—Sharlene Teo