In “Let My Country Awake,” Scott Miller tells the story of revolutionaries in America who fought the British Empire at the ...

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

Maharani Jind Kaur, the last queen of Punjab, is back in the headlines as her jewels were auctioned in London. Known for ...

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 ...

He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?

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, ...

The Daughters of the British Empire (DBE) is sponsoring its annual British Bazaar from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct 25 ...

In 1619, the British were humiliated by the Mughal Empire — barely clinging to a fort in Bombay. Yet within centuries, they would dominate the subcontinent through cunning, commerce, and corporate ...

Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ”Springville,” is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed ...

The so-called “Elgin Marbles” are back in the news. Talks between Greece and the UK have resumed over the future of the large pieces of marble frieze taken from the Parthenon in Athens by British peer ...