Israel’s announcement of its “humanitarian city” in Gaza stirs up unsettling, traumatic and barbaric images of concentration ...

Long before India gained independence, one defiant voice inside the British Empire dared to call out a colonial massacre - ...

‘Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum (1760–1799)’ by Vikram Sampath opens a window to the life and times of one of the most debated figures from India’s history.

This tension,between an empire of slavery and an empire of freedom, is the puzzle at the heart of this course. Using primary and secondary sources, this course explores the interconnected histories of ...

Communication Workers’ Union GS Dave Ward has been appointed a “Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire” ...

The empire on which the sun never sets' is the most famous description of the British Empire - even though the phrase was invented to describe the reach of Spain's territory in the 16th century.

In the early weeks of World War I, the German cruiser SMS Emden, under Korvettenkapitän Karl von Müller, had already devastated Allied trade routes by sinking 60% of commerce in the region ...

The British Empire in particular is presented as essential to the appearance of a modern and liberal world order, usually with the argument that the United States should now take up that mantle.

BRITISH EMPIRE (See front cover) Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in ...

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain should be ashamed of, a new poll suggests. A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in ...