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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Sathnam Sanghera about his book "Empireland," which explores how Britain's imperialist history has shaped the country — and world — today. The prime minister of ...

JAMAICAN BLOOD & VICTORIAN CONSCIENCE by Bernard Semmel. 188 pages. Houghton M/ffl/n. $4.50. The British, having conscientiously freed most of their colonial subjects, now feel entitled to view with ...

British Indian author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera has retraced 10 definitive voyages that transformed the world forever ...

But the years that followed its publication were dogged by the author’s serious illness, until the welcome appearance of this ...

At some point in the late 1990s a friend sent me a copy of William Manchester’s The Last Lion. A biography of Winston Churchill, it read like a fiction novel so remarkable was the man. Detail after ...

At some point in the late 1990s a friend sent me a copy of William Manchester’s The Last Lion. A biography of Winston Churchill, it read like a fiction novel so remarkable was the man. Detail after ...

In May 2024, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch claimed that Britain was enriched by national “ingenuity and industry” rather than by colonialism and trans-Atlantic ...

The latest book from journalist and bestselling author David Grann is a deeply involved history of a 1741 shipwreck that he calls "a parable for our own turbulent modern times." "I always liked the ...