The long-standing issue of the Chagos Islands has taken a significant turn this week, as the British House of Commons voted in favor of a bill supporting the retrocession of the archipelago to ...

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. By Sathnam Sanghera. Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, ...

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire grew through its invasion of Dutch colonies around the Indian Ocean rim. The incursions entwined British and Dutch politics, ...

Stephen Fry has been knighted in the U.K.’s annual New Year Honors list, while Carey Mulligan and Sarah Lancashire have been named commanders of the British Empire. Each year, the reigning monarch — ...

Archaeologists in the oldest city in the United States recently excavated part of an historic district — unearthing remnants of its short-lived British past. Fox News Digital spoke with Andrea White, ...

Histories of Zionism in the interwar period usually focus on Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. In this fascinating account, Imber widens the aperture to include South Asia and South ...