For their designer pith helmets, the colonial diplomatic, consular and military corps chose fine linens, often lined with a horizontal white, red, ... The British Empire, ...

Picnics and pith helmets: Found in a rusty biscuit tin, a unique record of one diplomat's travels round the British Empire. By GLENYS ROBERTS Updated: 18:07 EDT, 29 July 2009 ...

It couldn't have been more colonial if Prince William had worn a pith helmet or driven a tank through Kingston: JAN MOIR's verdict on the royal tour that's split opinion. By JAN MOIR FOR THE DAILY ...

The films and television shows are colonial fantasies. In both, the Africans were mere background characters, there to support the latter-day colonial explorers dressed up as conservationists. Melania ...

Melania Trump criticised for wearing ‘colonial’ pith helmet in Africa. First lady's choice of headwear 'a reflection of her outdated understanding' of continent ...

In fact, during the 19th century, pith helmets were worn by colonial officials, soldiers, explorers and missionaries so frequently that they “came to visually epitomize the 19th-century age of ...

Melania Trump's controversial colonial pith helmet on her 2018 Kenya visit came from googling safari outfits, new tell-all book reveals.

Speaking to press in Egypt while finishing up her solo, four-country African tour on Saturday, first lady Melania Trump addressed the controversial white pith helmet she had worn while embarking ...

First lady Melania Trump has come under attack by media outlets during her Kenya trip for wearing a white pith helmet described as a symbol of white colonial rule.

The first lady is being criticized for wearing a white pith helmet, the style of which has historical links to colonial rule in Africa. Trump wore the helmet during a safari at the Nairobi ...