In colonial Lagos, one Yoruba Oba dared to speak when silence was expected. His name was Oba Eshugbayi Eleko, a king whose ...

Did you know Queen Victoria once adopted an Indian princess? Her name was Victoria Gowramma — the daughter of the last king ...

On Wednesday, June 25 morning, Kenyans woke up to a striking and chilling sight: Parliament and the road to State House — the symbolic heart of the republic — had been barricaded with coils of barbed ...

America inherited the core institutional framework of Europe (especially Britain) but refined and amplified it through ...

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It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

“…one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Of course, we understand that in 1775, at the time ...

From the financial hub of the Cayman Islands to the rugged natural beauty of South Georgia, British Overseas Territories (BOTs) might ring a bell - but do you truly grasp what they are?

They trusted they were active members of a powerful, expanding British Empire. What had begun as yet another crisis over Parliament’s right to tax its overseas possessions had quickly transformed into ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

The British Empire was once the largest empire in history, controlling vast territories across every continent. ... and governments across its colonies and the legacy that remains to this day.