Throughout its history, the British Empire has taken countless artifacts from its colonies and other countries. Governments and activists have since called for the repatriation of these cultural ...

Yet “Empireworld” seeks neither to bury the British Empire, nor to praise it. Mr Sanghera is not soliciting guilt or shame, for “history does not care about anyone’s feelings”.

Those lessons beckon today for Britain, and America, too. In the end, the empire — “the red on the map” — was a symbol, not the basis, of British influence. The home islands themselves, it could be ...

CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, where the British monarch ...

The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections.

What troubles Professor Biggar is that among British historians, too, it is now axiomatic to see the empire as a means to enslave and immiserate other peoples for the benefit of a small white elite.

Add to its longevity an unrivalled global footprint, and the British Empire’s baneful legacy may well have been deeper and more diffuse than that of any other modern state. Was British liberal ...

The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazi Germany, curriculum guidelines state. Guidance created by school support organisation The Key and offered to teachers across the ...

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire “Queen Elizabeth was a life ...