Fast on the heels of the recent “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump comes an odd suggestion that Americans ...

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 ...

British schoolchildren have long been taught comforting fairy tales about the beneficence of the largest empire in history, but recent historical scholarship is painting a quite different picture.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Matthew J. Smith, director of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London, about the commonwealth's complicated history.

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 ...

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.

“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.

As Corbyn rightly notes: “Black history is British history” – and hence its study should be part of the national curriculum, not segregated in a single month each year.

British schoolchildren have long been taught comforting fairy tales about the beneficence of the largest empire in history, but recent historical scholarship is painting a quite different picture.