CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, where the British monarch ...

The Queen’s complex legacy. Presidents and Prime Ministers of former British colonies have paid their respects to the Queen, including leaders from India, Ghana, South Africa, Barbados, and ...

The British continued to encourage this practice even when Burma was split off to form a separate colony. The British followed an administrative policy known as “ divide-and-rule” to maintain control ...

In Commonwealth nations with British colonial histories, ... His son, Peter Kenilorea Jr., a current member of Parliament, was 10 at the time.

Barbados will finally cut ties to the British monarchy, after years of trying. Queen Elizabeth II has long been the former colony’s official head of state.

In 1774, British North America included 20 colonies — not only the 13 most U.S. schoolchildren are familiar with but also Quebec, four maritime colonies, East and West Florida, and Bermuda ...

Other British outposts in the Middle East like Egypt, Palestine and in the Persian Gulf were mandates or protectorates, not outright colonies. Aden was first occupied by the British in 1839.