Cricket's widespread popularity across the globe is deeply rooted in the history of British colonialism. As the British Empire expanded its reach from the ...

In the 18th century, Britain had a well-established empire of colonies ... in British America. The British government fought a number of wars to protect and expand these colonies, and as a result ...

The British Empire began in the 1500s ... most European countries were looking to expand their control in Africa. We can still see the impact of the Scramble for Africa today.

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain should be ashamed of, a new poll suggests. A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in ...

The history of RIBA is closely entwined with that of the British Empire, which expanded and consolidated its colonial grip around the world during the institute’s formative years in the 19th and early ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...