Since July, when news had arrived from Massachusetts of Britain’s Pyrrhic victory at Bunker Hill, which had cost a thousand ...

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

Ten years ago, British ‘royalty’, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visited the Caribbean and locals prostrated before them. Local leaders made arrangements for them to play the Steelpan and the ...

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...

THE survey of Colonial research in the British Empire prepared by Dr. Lucy Mair (Agenda for October) is of particular interest at the present moment. Under the Colonial Research Committee appointed in ...

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 ...

AN important statement on the future of the British Colonial Empire was made in the House of Commons on July 13 by Colonel Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Colonel Stanley said ...

On December 16, 1773, American colonists stormed three British ships and hurled 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This ...

Reporting from Mumbai, India — When India’s Supreme Court this week legalized same-sex intercourse between consenting adults, it buried, most likely forever, a 157-year-old law introduced during ...

With its unsustainable federal deficits, the United States is on course to follow the British Empire into oblivion, writes ...