The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years.. The UK government confirmed ...

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 ...

Learn about British history, including what the British Empire was and when it ended in this Bitesize KS3 history guide. ... The first successful colony was set up in 1607 in Jamestown, ...

"Colin is a role model to all who participate in sport, able bodied or with a disability and he is an inspiration to all ...

At each major crossroad in America’s history — the Revolutionary War, the westward migration, the Civil War, the Great ...

“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.

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius. While the apogee of the globe-spanning empire passed decades ago, this ...

When author and artist Noah Angell heard rumors that the British Museum in London was haunted, he set about documenting ghost ...

The next morning, which was clear, cool, and sunny, I was out of my hotel at 7:45 a.m. and, when it opened at 8:00 a.m., in the lobby of the museum dedicated to the Erzurum Congress in July-August ...

The first inhabitants were slaves brought over by the French in the 18th century, and the territory was handed over by France to the British as part of Mauritius in 1814.