Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.

An unusual spot within this historic Sydney site has a treasure trove of archaeological evidence, which provides insight into ...

Analysis of dried plants from a colonial institution in 19th-century Australia reveals ... both individuals and populations within the British Empire. In Australia, these institutions have played ...

The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems, museum ...

is also facing growing pressure to return artifacts taken from other countries during the period of the British Empire – notably the Parthenon Marbles, 2,500-year-old sculptures that were removed from ...

The policing of a weekend protest in London against Israel’s genocide in Gaza was alarmingly heavy-handed, bearing troubling echoes of the repression faced by early 19th-century reformers in the ...

By Michael Zwaagstra It appears Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees have too much time on their hands. That’s the ...

The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

The age of empires seemed to be a thing of the past. But now there are signs that some world leaders hanker after imperial ...