The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

Ms. Jasanoff, a professor of history at Harvard, is the author of three books about the British Empire and its subjects. “The end of an era” will become a refrain as commentators assess the ...

On June 6, 1944, the British found themselves suddenly and irrevocably overtaken by their former colony.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

In his new book Empireland, Sathnam Sanghera examines how the British Empire's pieties and fictions persist to this day.

The Truth About Empire promises to be “a shield against the assault on historical truth.” Its authors might do well to visit Col. Pennycuick’s memorial at Camberley before it, too, is toppled.

“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.

According to the decolonizers, Israel is and always has been an illegitimate freak-state because it was fostered by the British empire and because some of its founders were European-born Jews.

"It drives me nuts that we educate people that the empire was bad," Australian TV host Rowan Dean said. "I am all for it, let's start a new movement. Bring back the British Empire." ...

White supremacy was at the heart of the British Empire and the Transatlantic slave trade, and the racialization of Indigenous and enslaved peoples was central to colonizers maintaining their power, ...