Signed in secret at the height of the first world war, Sykes-Picot was an agreement between France and Great Britain, approved by Russia. It would have lasting consequences for the region. It is ...

and a cultural aphasia surrounding Scotland’s active participation in “painting the map red”. In 2021, only 36% of Scottish schools taught at least one history lesson on the British Empire and a ...

London is a city people think they know before they arrive. They come for the skyline, where glass towers stand shoulder to ...

Human progress is never inevitable. It only comes through the tireless work and persistent efforts of dedicated individuals.

It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of President Trump's controversial executive order to rename the body of water.

“People using Maps in the US will see ‘Gulf of America,’ and people in Mexico will see ‘Gulf of Mexico.’ Everyone else will see both names,” it said in a statement Monday. Google said ...

Estimates based on the Bible's account vary from a fairly unimpressive six feet to a monstrous height of nine feet ... common in the west of the British Isles where about one in 1,000 people ...

In 1969, when I came from India to study, I showed a professor a book I had detailing the harm the British had caused to India. I hoped this would stimulate a discussion about the empire.

London's first Roman basilica has been finally found - hidden underneath the basement of an unassuming office block near ...

Mr Mearns has located 29 major wrecks in a career spanning 35 years, including the 16th century ship The Esmeralda from Vasco da Gama’s fleet, and Ernest Shackleton’s Quest ship, which went down off ...