In his new book, Dr Mubin Syed traces a line between colonial hunger and modern heart disease and diabetes across South Asia.

Leading up to the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday, South Asians all over the world are reflecting on what it means for another British monarch to come to power. With golden carriages, ...

Michael Burleigh reflects on the legacy of past territorial divisions in light of the current negotiations over Ukraine.

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen. In ...

Britain’s expansion was the forefather of FDI and globalisation, but it wasn’t always welcomed, as this sketch from a 19th-century US magazine shows. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images). At its height ...

Kenyan newspapers show coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, at a stand in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 9, 2022 (AP photo by Brian Inganga). International media reaction to and coverage of ...

Among the depressing observations in Gerard Baker’s “Foreign Policy and the 2024 Election: Feckless or Reckless?” (Free Expression, May 14), one in particular is reminiscent of recent history: Our ...

This article contains mild spoilers for the first five episodes of Around The World in 80 Days. While Jules Vernes’ classic novel Around The World In 80 Days has long been celebrated for its depiction ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...