The Daughters of the British Empire (DBE) is sponsoring its annual British Bazaar from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 25 ...
The New Haven museum bills “Hew Locke: Passages” as the artist’s most comprehensive show to date, including 49 works spanning ...
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 ...
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 ...
His architecture swung from austere to whimsical, with conspicuous projects like the sprawling headquarters of the British ...
He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?
Georgia Harrison, 30, was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her efforts to tackle "online privacy and ...
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, ...
This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Has the sun finally set on the British Empire? King ...
Swedish-born Anders Mankert now lives in England and has been coaching blind or partially-sighted people to play golf for the ...
SIR Lenny Henry has argued that every black Brit should be paid reparations for slavery. The 67-year-old co-wrote a book titled The Big Payback, which supports the argument that £18trillion should ...
Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ”Springville,” is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed ...