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 ...

History Review: The Brutality of British Empire on Display in Legacy of Violence Caroline Elkins' book raises an important question for people today, particularly liberals—an issue that Elkins ...

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 history of the British Empire is clear that it was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.

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 ...

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 ...

The British Empire covered 24% of the Earth's land mass by 1920. Harvard historian Caroline Elkins says British rulers portrayed themselves as benevolent, but used systematic violence to maintain ...

Some British historians have more pointedly blamed the Americans for destabilizing the British empire by fomenting the forces of anti-colonialism (what D. Cameron Watt called America’s “moral ...

Alan Cumming and Princess Anne. Alamy Stock Photo All four of The Beatles were all made Members of the British Empire (MBE) in 1965, but John Lennon returned his honor four years later.