Explore the 25 Most POWERFUL Empires in History, from Rome to the British Empire. Discover how military, economic, and ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

Award-winning spoken word artist George the Poet has revealed that he turned down an MBE because of the “pure evil” of the British Empire. “The gesture is deeply appreciated, the wording is not,” said ...

On a cloud-spackled Sunday last June, protesters in Bristol, England, gathered at a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader on whose watch more than eighty thousand Africans were ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

Jeremy Corbyn recently proposed that British school children should be taught about the history of the realities of British imperialism and colonialism. This would include the history of people of ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...