The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.

“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. But from a ...

This video explores a hypothetical scenario where the British Empire reunites in the modern world. It examines population ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Empire with David Olusoga is available on BBC Two on Friday November 7 at 9pm - BBC/Hillgate Films and Voltage TV My first thought ...

In 2022, the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu unveiled a monument of Col. John Pennycuick in his English hometown of Camberley. The inscription described him in characteristically Indian ...

This is the sixteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of Donald Trump. (This week, ...

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 ...

When the British Empire was at its peak, it is said that 'the sun never sets on the British Empire'. The figurative expression meant that the empire of the British was so big that there was always ...

On 13 February 1931, the British Empire inaugurated New Delhi as the capital of the Raj, a city of sweeping avenues, imperial ...