Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

The African Transformation Movement has announced plans to formally table a proposal before parliament to change South Africa ...

A commission of inquiry in Victoria concluded that British colonialists' treatment of the state's First Peoples in the 1830s ...

From Shakespeare’s plays to William Wordsworth’s poetry to J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy realms, Britain’s lush green forests are ...

Since Queen Elizabeth II passed away, life in Britain has undergone several noticeable changes. These transformations, while ...

In 1843, in the aftermath of the First Opium War, British colonial forces took over Hong Kong. But the walled city—so named because of fortifications like cannons, a gate, and watchtowers ...

Between 1885 and 1940, the British colonial administration set up nine canal colonies in western Punjab and constructed the largest irrigation canal system in the world in the region.

Over roughly 200 years, the East India Company and the British Raj siphoned out at least £9.2 trillion (or $44.6 trillion; since the exchange rate was $4.8 per pound sterling during much of the ...

The colonial partition that keeps Cameroon split along ‘artificial lines’ A century ago, Germany, France and Britain claimed the country at different times.

The British Council is an anachronism, an expensive and increasingly irrelevant throwback to a time when as the architect of Empire, Cecil Rhodes, put it, to be born English is to “have won the ...

The U.S. backed out of the treaty in 1866, reinstating tariffs on imports from the British colonies. The tariff wall added a further motive for Confederation.

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, ...