Self-government remains a fundamental American principle that admits no qualification or compromise. A commitment to ...

Hannay and Arbuthnot went undercover into the Ottoman Empire to thwart German plans (the Ottomans were allied to the Central Powers) to foment rebellion in Muslim lands against their British ...

At 1.30pm he was arrested at McKenna’s Fort by armed members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. At half-past six that evening, the Aud was surrounded by British naval vessels and was ordered to Cobh ...

NEW YORK -- The American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin. Starting with ...

The film depicts the aftermath of the brutal Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, with Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair’s notable legal battle against the British Empire at its core. Nair, an Indian jurist and ...

But, as Betjeman noted at the time, and as Ashley Jackson reminds us in this magisterial book, there was another vast power bloc involved in the struggle and – unlike the latecoming US and USSR – ...

Welcome to the British Pound exchange rate & live currency converter page. The British Pound (GBP) exchange rates represented on this page are live, updated every minute within the forex market's ...

The British pound has been relatively resilient until the last couple of weeks, but still is one of the better performing currencies overall When it comes to holding its own against the greenback.

On my twenty-first birthday I welcome the opportunity to speak to all the peoples of the British Commonwealth and Empire, wherever they live, whatever race they come from, and whatever language they ...

At one time, briefly, America and Canada were part of one Empire. The yoking of the two lands under one King only lasted from 1763 to 1776. Then the Thirteen Colonies that laid the foundations for the ...