A British-Nigerian photographer with close links to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has spoken out on Britain's "colonial past" following the Nigerian State Visit. The criticism came from Misan ...
“KOH-I-NOOR” means “Mountain of Light” in Persian. “Mountain of Misery” might be a better name for the infamous diamond. Its story is one of marauding and empire-building across Central Asia: Mughal ...
To U.S. business last week came a reasoned and challenging statement of what British Liberal opinion believes may be the economic future of the British Isles and Britain’s Colonial Empire. Free of the ...
British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites. All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the ...
Kenyans in Nairobi read newspapers Sept. 9 with coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's death. (Brian Inganga/AP) The death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, is causing a global ...
There is a saying that circulates among history enthusiasts: “When something strange happens in the world, blaming Britain usually hits the mark.” This refers to how tracing the origins of many ...
I TOOK three centuries to bring the British Empire to its apogee, from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Queen Victoria. The greatest advance occurred between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and ...
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