PBS

More on 18th-Century British Trade and Colonialism in Asia

What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...
The Diplomat

Great Britain’s Worst Military Blunder in South Asia

‘Remnants of an Army’ by Elizabeth Butler portraying William Brydon arriving at the gates of Jalalabad as the only survivor of a 16,000 strong military expedition from Kabul in January 1842. Credit: ...
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
War on the Rocks

How British Imperial History Does (and Doesn’t) Shape the Sino-Indian Border Dispute

Kyle J. Gardner, The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) When the first Englishman visited Leh, the capital of Ladakh ...
Wall Street Journal

Books on the Big Business of the British Empire

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 ...
The National Interest

How America Surpassed the British Empire Without Fighting

Here’s What You Need to Know: America pushed Britain out of the Western Hemisphere, more or less, by the turn of the twentieth century. Westerners make much of China’s obsession with “winning without ...
Wall Street Journal

The British Empire Made the Same Mistake

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 ...
Harvard Business School

The Reassertion of the British Empire in Southeast Asia

Elkins, Caroline. "The Reassertion of the British Empire in Southeast Asia." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39, no. 3 (Winter 2009): 361–385.
The Business Times

More than 600 items stolen from British Empire museum: police

The items, many of which were donations, provide insight into a multi-layered part of British history Read more at The Business Times.
The National Interest

When Japan Conquered Singapore In World War II, Britain’s Asia Empire Had Come To An End

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Perhaps the biggest consequence of the fall of Singapore was the destruction of Britain’s Asian empire. Depleted by the First World War and then squeezed dry by the ...
PBS

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David Olusoga tells the story of the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I. David Olusoga tells the story of the British Empire from its origins under Elizabeth I to the establishment of ...
NPR

Like The Empire Itself, The British Pound Is Not What It Used To Be

The British pound sterling is the oldest currency still in use in the world, dating to the time when Britain was little more than a collection of warring fiefdoms regularly plundered by Vikings. Since ...