The rise of the U.S. empire overlapped with the decline of the British empire. The Soviet Union represented limited political and military challenges, but never any serious economic competition or ...

While the apogee of the globe-spanning empire passed decades ago, this is, the Financial Times reports, “the first time in more than three centuries” that night will fall on British territory. There’s ...

The culmination, 1760-1763 -- A French attempt to conquer the British Isles -- British continental commitments, 1759-60 -- The new king and the German Seven Years' War -- Privateersmen and neutrals -- ...

Modern Muslim tyrannies always lose. A one-by-one survey of five of the Muslim nations whose commonality is hating Israel: ...

Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday peacefully at home in Scotland after a remarkable 70-year reign. We cannot talk about the British monarchy without confronting the colonial horrors of this ...

Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

Last week in the House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill, who in 1942 defiantly declared that he had not become Prime Minister “to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire,” sat glum ...

Art British photographs of the ’70s and ’80s showcase empire in decline At the National Gallery of Art, ‘This is Britain’ paints a portrait of a disunited kingdom, beset by economic woes ...

Instead of focusing on the roles of monarchs, politicians and armed forces in British empire-making, Stern excavates the central part played by corporations and joint-stock companies.