T he British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising endeavour, a bringer of peace, an exploitative force or a project based on white supremacy.

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

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 sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday they are handing over its control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian ...

A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism ...

The British Empire covered 24% of the Earth's land mass by 1920. Harvard historian Caroline Elkins says British rulers portrayed themselves as benevolent, but used systematic violence to maintain ...

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, by Caroline Elkins, Knopf, 896 pages, $37.50. Histories of imperialism, especially the European imperialism of the 19th and 20th centuries ...

Scots think their country was a victim of the British Empire, poll finds Only a minority accept that Scotland partnered England to derive its historical wealth from slavery and colonies ...

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 ...

The results show that 60 per cent of 2024 SNP voters believe that Scotland was a subject of the British Empire. Similarly, 55 per cent of those who voted for independence at the 2014 referendum ...