JacobinOpinion

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s ...
CaspianReport on MSN

Why Britain’s rise to power still shapes the modern world

The British Empire once spanned every continent, ruling over a quarter of the world’s population and resources. Through naval ...

The British public will never forgive Reeves and Labour for this tax betrayal

Tory austerity wrecked productivity. Brexit hammered exports. And the war in Ukraine and President Trump’s tariffs have ...

Grave markers for Old Edgefield’s American revolutionaries are still here. They tell their history.

Dr. Marian Bland lectured in North Augusta on American Revolutionary history, localized in three Old Edgefield families’ ...
Tribune Chronicle

Lecture puts focus on First Ladies

Andrew Och’s PowerPoint presentation and question-and-answer session lasted 90 minutes, but the award-winning author ...

Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.
Opinion

John T. Shaw: Johns Hopkins scholar shows that knowing history is invaluable to statesmanship

Winston Churchill, the towering British statesman who served as prime minister during World War II, was once asked by an American student how to become a successful leader. Churchill’s advice: “Study ...

Tribal descendent teaches North Andover's indigenous history

The theater lights dimmed and guests settled in their seats as artist, historian and descendant of the Neponset band of the Massachusett, Thomas Spirit Tree Green lectured folks on the history of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

British History

Discovered in southern England, the collection features dozens of gold and silver coins dating to the 15th and 16th centuries—including several inscribed with the initials of Henry VIII’s wives ...
The Art Newspaper

British Museum seeks £3.5m to keep rare gold pendant—with ties to Henry VIII’s daughter—in the UK

The British Museum held a dramatic press conference today, announcing its campaign to save a gleaming gold, heart-shaped pendant—which offers an unprecedented window on to the relationship between ...
The Mirror

Powerful new exhibition amplifying Black British voices launches for Black History Month

In celebration of Black History Month, a popular central London event space is launching an exciting new exhibition. The month-long exhibition centres on intersectional identity and what it means to ...