The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.

In 1874, British forces invaded Kumasi, the capital of the powerful Asante Empire in present-day Ghana, burned the royal palace, and carried off gold regalia, sacred objects, and royal treasures that ...

In the new film of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, the writer and director Patricia Rozema includes an early scene that is not in the book. As Fanny Price departs from her family in Portsmouth to ...

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queen Victoria had several wards and godchildren from British colonies, including Africa and India. The godchildren were treated ...

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 ...

For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and more than a few that stained British arms. Like the Romans, the British fought a variety of enemies. They also had ...

Kyle J. Gardner, The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) When the first Englishman visited Leh, the capital of Ladakh ...

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. The ...