All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the nation-states that were once nation-empires. The 1960s ...

In February 1788, Britain’s elite gathered in Westminster Hall to watch the first major impeachment of an empire‑builder — ...

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 ...

The story of Greek presence on the island of Great Britain is a tale of trading, entrepreneurship, religion, royalty and war.

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 ...

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. By Sathnam Sanghera. Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, ...

Ambitious little ex-Cockney Herbert Morrison, Britain’s Socialist Home Secretary, rose to his feet last week to calm an uproar. His Prime Minister started the uproar two months ago with a statement on ...

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...

PM: There's a great deal of conversation about how highbrow texts — literary or otherwise — shape our understanding of power.

Joyce Gyimah, in a heartwarming ceremony on Wednesday, November 5, received the British Empire Medal from His Majesty’s ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of previously unknown routes.