The OBE award, which stands for Order of the British Empire, is reportedly seen by royal officials as outdated and referencing the UK's colonial past. Under the new plans, the traditional colonial ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

Scots wrongly believe their country was a victim of the British Empire ... Across the UK, 22 per cent said they would like Britain to still have an empire. The idea of a modern-day empire was ...

Scots appear to be unwilling to accept their country's leading role in creating the British Empire, a new poll suggests. More people believe that Scotland was simply a subject of England than a ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...

I was absolutely bowled over,” the Cambria man and British expat said upon learning he would be honored by King Charles.

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: No empire wins every fight, not even the vaunted British. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and... Here’s What You ...

British and French control of the region a century ago came at a cost which is felt until this day. A rights group criticises the UK after people were evicted from the British territory in the 1960s.