This video explores how the British Empire began to unravel after World War II, when financial collapse, rising independence ...

NEW HAVEN — A show as expansive and full of surprises as ”Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, ...

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 ...

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites. All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the ...

Volatility today leads us to look at the foundations of the international world that is now being transformed. The key decade was the 1940s, the period of the establishment of American superpower ...

The Scottish actor became an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2009, collecting the honor from Princess Anne during an investiture ceremony Alan Cumming is no longer ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

For many residents of the United Kingdom, the death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted questions about how the country is transitioning—substantively and symbolically—into a new era. Elizabeth ...

‘Winnie” Recharts His Hectic Course as Suzerain of the Seas Now on the outside of politics, Winston Churchill gives full vent to his literary genius. His book,* except for some too technical pages, is ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ruled a quarter of the earth’s landmass, has seen its overseas empire reduced ...