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 ...

What does it truly mean for a nation to declare its independence Beyond the fireworks, parades, and celebrations, ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s strangely unsettling to peer into the razor-sharp, beautifully toned photographs of 19th-century English colonial gentry, servants, and native royals in India, now on ...

THE annexation of Ethiopia has presented the Italian Government with a tremendous problem in colonial administration. No other area in Africa of equal size offers such variety of topography, climate, ...

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 ...

King Charles III won't feature on Australia's new $5 bill, the nation's central bank announced Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, signaling a phasing out of the British monarchy from Australian bank notes ...