Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

It was a man called Reginald Brabazon, Earl of Meath, who in 1903, two years after the death of Queen Victoria, suggested that her birthday, May 24, should be renamed Empire Day and become a day for ...

London (AFP) – More than 600 items, including military medals and jewellery from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire, were stolen from a UK ...

The cake represents the continent of Africa. It is being divided up and given to other European countries. The man holding the knife is Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor of Germany. Although he was ...

Britain should now be driving reform in post-colonial states and making concrete efforts to clean up the mess it left behind Freelance journalist based in South East Asia Freelance journalist based in ...

A cross-curricular music resource celebrating the contribution of black artists and composers to British music. This video covers the roots of black music, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, jazz and the Empire ...

British Conservative MP Bob Blackman has called on the UK government to issue a formal apology for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, describing the event as "a stain on the British Empire." ...

The genealogy of the term British reveals a fragile and contested historical identity – something Brexit has thrown into stark relief. In the 17th century, being British only had meaning as a colonial ...