Historical empires like Spain, Britain, and the Soviet Union have experienced economic decline through seven identifiable ...

The 2026 commemorative coin set, featuring five new designs The Royal Mint The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint has unveiled its five designs for the new year’s commemorative coin set, which honors ...

11:07, Fri, Jan 2, 2026 Updated: 11:12, Fri, Jan 2, 2026 The Royal Mint has unveiled five new UK coin designs for 2026, marking significant anniversaries including the bicentenary of the Zoological ...

A short clip has been circulating on Instagram, often paired with gin labels and captions about empire and empire-building. It shows a stiff-backed British aristocrat aboard a yacht, briefly ...

The Royal Mint has revealed some of the milestone anniversaries that are being celebrated in five new UK coin designs for 2026, including 200 years of the Zoological Society London (ZSL) and 100 years ...

A D-Day veteran awarded a British Empire Medal has said Britain today is “disappointing” and warned the country risks repeating mistakes made before the Second World War. Mervyn Kersh, 101, from ...

Mervyn Kersh, 101, from Cockfosters, north London, is being honoured for his school talks on Holocaust remembrance and his wartime service. D-Day veteran and Ambassador for the British Normandy ...

Amy and Ryan Jackson, co-founders of the Lily Mae Foundation, have each been awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours list A couple who founded a charity to support parents who have lost ...

The defenders of Hong Kong, tens of thousands of miles from any conceivable relief force, surrendered the territory to Imperial Japan on December 25, 1941. Everyone remembers the Japanese Imperial ...

Christopher Claassen has received funding from the Leverhulme Trust and NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe) If you wander through Glasgow Green, you’ll ...

LONDON: More than 600 items, including military medals and jewellery from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire, were stolen from a UK museum in ...

CCTV footage released by Avon and Somerset Police on December 11, 2025 shows men carrying bags outside a building housing museum items in the early hours of September 25 in the city of Bristol, UK.