In former British colonies, ghosts of past haunt mourning for queen ‘Colonialism is history in the West,’ said a South African writer. ‘But in our countries, colonialism is now.’ ...

It spread from the Americas to include colonies in Africa, Asia and Australasia. During this time Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in ...

When she took the throne in 1952, more than a quarter of the world's population was under British imperial power. That was more than 700 million people — including in parts of Africa, Asia, the ...

Beyond official condolences praising the queen’s longevity and service, there is some bitterness about the past in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and elsewhere.

British economic growth was propelled by importing raw materials from its colonies and exporting the finished products back to them. Mercantilism drove certain brutal activities, including slavery ...

India’s government unveiled new punishments for mob lynchings and crimes against women on Friday in a proposal for the country’s biggest criminal justice overhaul since the British colonial era.

The Manchester Museum in England was founded at the pinnacle of the British Empire. Now it is embracing the city’s South Asian population and reassessing the colonial past.