As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

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 survey of 1,067 Scottish adults found 40 per cent of Scots believed Scotland had been “more of a subject” in the British Empire, with just 29 per cent believing it was a partner.

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

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 ...

The British Empire could not have survived and grown without these traitors and they are as much to blame for what we, the colonised, suffered.

Yet, while Queen Elizabeth II, as an institution and an icon, reigned during the decline of the British empire, she also worked assiduously to develop the peaceful Commonwealth of Nations.

Despite all the pageantry of the last two days, it is a truth universally acknowledged that the British Empire ain't what it used to be. But economist Peter Hammond, guesting at Debraj Ray's blog ...