The turbulent history of the union jack

For centuries the ultimate emblem of Britishness has meant different things to different people, and now it is back in the ...

Westmoreland County flag, with its ties to the American Revolution, celebrates 250th anniversary

The "Proctor flag" or the "Rattlesnake flag" was first unfurled in the wake of the fighting at Lexington and Concord.
New York Sun

Sunset on the British Empire?

The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.
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Guest rages against 'anti-British' sentiment as he insists flag row 'all about power'

British" sentiment flooding the nation as swathes of the country hit out at flying the Union Jack flag and St George's cross ...
The Atlantic

The British Have Invaded 90 Percent of the Countries on Earth

Everybody knew that the British loved to conquer lots of countries for their precious empire. It's not until somebody sits down and actually counts all of them that we realize just how many. Historian ...
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

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 ...
Washington Examiner

British academia’s ongoing mental breakdown over the legacies of empire

In 2022, the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu unveiled a monument of Col. John Pennycuick in his English hometown of Camberley. The inscription described him in characteristically Indian ...
The Atlantic

On D-Day, the U.S. Conquered the British Empire

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For most Americans, D-Day remains the most famous battle of World War II. It was not the end of the war against Nazism. At most, it was the beginning of the end.