Belgian colleagues kindly explained the basics of how modern societies work; I adhered to a rule of never engaging Americans ...

Since 2020 our team has been investigating the links between the RA and its colonial past. Research into the Royal Academy of ...

Looking at Women, Looking at War, a mix of diary and reportage by Victoria Amelina, makes for a harrowing portrait of Ukraine ...

The Attorney General has described “almost every element” of the British Empire as racist and revealed ... it comes to our collective past. “In order to buy into this notion of British ...

This sort of group-portrait play is ... sometimes that the Persian Empire kept growing. And Cyrus the Great would still be our king. Instead of the Americans, the British, everyone telling us ...

Official portraits of Queen Mary and King George V in 1914. The British Empire was ruled by the Royal Family. It’s the same family that reigns today and the King at the time was Queen Elizabeth ...

Grayson Perry was born on March 24th, 1960, making him 64 years old in 2024. He hails from Chelmsford, Essex, where he spent ...

Happy birthday, Michigan! The Mitten State was granted statehood on Jan. 26, 1837 — 188 years ago today. But many chapters of Michigan’s rich history predates statehood.

He received numerous accolades, including the Shell Petroleum scholarship, the National Merit Award, the Commonwealth Certificate in London, the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British ...

To mark the 75th death anniversary of George Orwell (1903-1950), the British writer ... Life in Burma turned Orwell against the Empire — he said, “in order to hate imperialism, you have ...

The Royal Victoria Order was established by Queen Victoria to mark her Diamond Jubilee, to highlight the services undertaken to the British Empire ... a striking new portrait of the monarch.