Australian TV host Rowan Dean has called for a new British Empire following the death of the Queen in a clip that has gone viral. Speaking on Sky News Australia, Dean's guest, James Morrow, also ...

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 ...

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. By Sathnam Sanghera. Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, ...

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen. In ...

Britain’s expansion was the forefather of FDI and globalisation, but it wasn’t always welcomed, as this sketch from a 19th-century US magazine shows. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images). At its height ...

In the years leading up to the start of the Second World War, Britain’s empire extended to every continent on Earth. As such, ...

Alan Cumming has returned his OBE after 14 years because of the "toxicity" of the British Empire. The Scottish actor had received the award in 2009 for his activism on equal rights for the gay and ...

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

With Queen Elizabeth II's recent passing, some of us have spent way too much time watching the somber ceremonies unfold in Great Britain. Nobody does pageantry like the English, and their uniforms and ...