When the 20th century arrived, the British Empire stood at its peak - yet the seeds of its collapse were already growing.

Police said they wanted to talk to four unidentified men, all wearing caps or hoodies, seen in the CCTV images carrying bags ...

Police have reported that more than 600 artifacts relating to the British Empire and Commonwealth have been stolen from ...

His new series brushes over facts which might confuse its black-and-white narrative Let us do what David Olusoga doesn’t do.

When President Bush, before the Knesset, used the word "appeasement" to label those who would negotiate with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he invoked the most powerful analogy in any debate over war and ...

Britain today is consumed by its relationship with Europe. Almost three years after 52% of U.K. voters opted to leave the European Union, lawmakers and the public are still struggling to decide what ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an awkward subject, they avoid it, change the subject, make tea. Nowhere is this more so than with the topic of the British Empire. The ...

Police are desperately searching for more than 600 ‘high-value’ artefacts stolen from a historic British Empire collection.

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...

Even in the decades after it lost its empire, Britain strode the world like a pocket superpower. Its economic strength and cultural heft, its nuclear-backed military might, its extraordinary ...

Britain’s true genius was in crafting an empire that could be remembered fondly, even by the formerly oppressed, writes Siddhartha Arora In an era of postcolonial reckoning, where statues fall and ...