With celebrations taking place around the country and further afield, we take a look back at the history of the United States ...

July 4th is one of the biggest holidays in the United States. But behind the red, white, and blue fireworks and parades is a ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

The stories of hardship, abuse, discrimination, rape, murder and racial violence against Indians displaced by indentured labour have not eroded with time, writes Vinesh Selvan.

In 1843, in the aftermath of the First Opium War, British colonial forces took over Hong Kong. But the walled city—so named because of fortifications like cannons, a gate, and watchtowers ...

Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

The African Transformation Movement has announced plans to formally table a proposal before parliament to change South Africa’s official name.

A commission of inquiry in Victoria concluded that British colonialists' treatment of the state's First Peoples in the 1830s ...

From Shakespeare’s plays to William Wordsworth’s poetry to J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy realms, Britain’s lush green forests are ...

Since Queen Elizabeth II passed away, life in Britain has undergone several noticeable changes. These transformations, while ...

Between 1885 and 1940, the British colonial administration set up nine canal colonies in western Punjab and constructed the largest irrigation canal system in the world in the region.

Over roughly 200 years, the East India Company and the British Raj siphoned out at least £9.2 trillion (or $44.6 trillion; since the exchange rate was $4.8 per pound sterling during much of the ...