Shannon Chakraborty is the critically acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author of the Daevabad trilogy and “The ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

I had studied the British Empire at university but had never really ... of the brutal colonial history that I learned about from books, a reckoning felt inevitable. When I began writing this ...

For nearly two centuries, historians with an Irish-nationalist bent have explained this horror—not without reason—in terms of the indifference and brutality of successive British governments.

T here are a lot of TV shows that have their roots in literature, and this comes from a wide variety of genres. Anything from ...

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China, like the US more than a century ago, is the clear rising power globally, whereas the US is much like the British were around the time of WWI—the most powerful empire in existence but in ...

Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

Politics, nature, romantasy and vampires are to the fore on the shortlists for The British Book Awards 2025 ... the selected titles examplify the best of the book business. The shortlists ...

Dolans work in Stamford was detailed in the 2013 book "Rogue Town," which chronicled ... "Crusade for Freedom" speech before the British Parliament; and the March 8, 1983, "Evil Empire" speech before ...

Sally Rooney and Colm Tóibín have been shortlisted for fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards, while Ferdia Lennon has made the debut fiction shortlist. Former Author of the Year ...