The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...

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.

The first thing to say about laissez-faire liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This ...

Movements favoring Greek independence manifested in several countries of Europe, while significant philhellenic centers were ...

Donald Trump seems taken by the idea that he might be welcomed into the Commonwealth. Those pushing the idea must have lost ...

Non-European colonialist empires existed for ... thereby humiliating non-white peoples. The British Empire is a proxy for the West. The phrase “colonialism and slavery” is often used to ...

British media are reporting rumours King Charles may extend an invitation to the United States to join the group of former ...

From the battlefields of Morea to the halls of power in London and Washington, the Greek War of Independence set the stage ...

Most importantly, the British Empire was never as bad as its Belgian ... Leete referred to our surroundings as “a little European ghetto,” still totally separate from Black Kenyans.

Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

Trump, like Putin, seems to believe that it’s his prerogative as the leader of a global superpower to seize land to promote U ...