Denied permission to travel abroad, Rani Kanari Sahiba defied the British Raj by disguising herself as a man and journeying ...

In “Let My Country Awake,” Scott Miller tells the story of revolutionaries in America who fought the British Empire at the ...

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 at Maplewood Presbyterian Church, 19523 84th Ave. W., Edmonds. […] ...

PM: There's a great deal of conversation about how highbrow texts — literary or otherwise — shape our understanding of power.

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 ...

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 ...

It was a commemoration nearly 10 years in the making. The tribute to honor Irish diplomat and human rights activist, Roger ...

The so-called “Elgin Marbles” are back in the news. Talks between Greece and the UK have resumed over the future of the large pieces of marble frieze taken from the Parthenon in Athens by British peer ...

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 ...