Maharani Jind Kaur, the last queen of Punjab, is back in the headlines as her jewels were auctioned in London. Known for ...

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 ...

Once the city fell to the Turks, the British had to evacuate. Lieutenant-Colonel Toby Rawlinson took command of a steamer ...

The Scottish actor became an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2009, collecting the honor from Princess Anne during an investiture ceremony Stephanie Petit is a Royals ...

If you look at a world map from the middle of the 19th century, you could color most regions red for Britain. The so-called "mother country" controlled much of the globe, from Iraq to Australia to ...

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 ...

Del Toro’s film presents the Arctic of the 1800s as a barren wasteland, which overlooks the existence of Indigenous peoples ...

The Left-wing bias of the establishment has been revealed in a survey of their views on politics, free speech, the empire and ...

"I don't want to fight." "None of us do." Watermelon Pictures has unveiled their own full US trailer for the acclaimed film ...

The First British offensive of the War begins in North Africa. Meanwhile, the German Knickebein system is designed for ...

The New Haven museum bills “Hew Locke: Passages” as the artist’s most comprehensive show to date, including 49 works spanning ...