Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. “The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the ...

An empire is a single state that contains a variety ... as it became after the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707, the British — one.

The Attorney General has described “almost every element” of the British Empire as racist and revealed he fought to get reparations. Lord Hermer, speaking on a podcast for his former chambers ...

Stephen Fry has been knighted in the U.K.’s annual New Year Honors list, while Carey Mulligan and Sarah Lancashire have been named commanders of the British Empire. Each year, the reigning ...

Mainstream outlets are only willing to regurgitate their governments’ soft criticisms of Israel, which serve to mask the West’s complicity ... John Newsinger’s A People’s History of the British Empire ...

Billionaire businessman Elon Musk is facing backlash after lauding the British Empire for ‘ending’ global slavery. The remarks have drawn sharp criticism from several quarters while many on X ...

In Britain it is common for historians of empire to be told they are denigrating the nation’s history by linking the British countryside to the trans-Atlantic slavery system. Yet we can’t ...

Posts on Facebook suggested the council asked for the mural's removal because of the flag. “Award-winning chippy in Greenwich was told to take down the British flag as it's deemed inappropriate ...

Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, but publishing books about it is in vogue. A wave of titles has hit ...

British expats residing in Spain are facing new challenges as health authorities in Andalucia extend the mandatory use of face masks in all health centres, despite a significant drop in flu and ...

It is a vast and sprawling story about how the legacy, structures and thought of the British Empire reach around the world, even today. So vast, in fact, is this tale that it spills out of the ...

A taxi driver has hit back at his local council after it banned him from flying the British flag from his car. Shropshire Council said that Basil Brockhurst, an ex-Armed Forces serviceman who runs ...