One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...

Imperial nostalgia correlates strongly with support beyond the main parties: positively with Reform and negatively with the ...

British Emplre Day was celebrated in Jerusalem yesterday. A message of greetings was recetved by Col. Symes, acting High Commissioner, from Col. Leopold H. Amery, British Colonial Secretary, who in ...

Ten thousand Britons crowded into Hyde Park last week on Queen Victoria’s birthday, more popularly known as Empire Day, which England sets aside to honor her great inheritance. In the natural ...

The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday has ended a 70-year reign that saw the fall of the British empire and the introduction of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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 ...

For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new ...