Explore Through Key Periods
A post from the archives
1932
room United Kingdom
Burmese-born Actress who starred in one of the greatest sci-fi films
Edwina Carroll was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1932 and grew up in Oxford, UK. She first auditioned for the musical The King and I but ended up being cast in The Teahouse of the August Moon, which ran at Her Majesty's Theatre. In 1956, she was cast in A Town like Alice and continued to work in film and television over the 1960s. The Anglo-Burmese actress also took modeling jobs as she was considered a "versatile’ model" (due to her...
Explore Myanmar History through a Timeline
About this project
The aim of this website is to promote interest in Myanmar's amazing history.Our hope is to challenge the often two-dimensional and uncritical views of history taught in Myanmar by reexamining key periods in the country's past. We would like as well to reveal the rich multicultural nature of Myanmar's history and its deep and ongoing ties to global events and trends.Finally, this website will also delve into the history of neighbouring regions, such as Yunnan in China and the Northeast in India, in the hope of introducing these places to a Myanmar audience.We believe that meeting Myanmar's many challenges today will require fresh imaginative thinking. This is turn will only be possible with a clear and critical understanding of Myanmar and global history.