The 19th-century power struggle between the Sikhs, the British, and the Afghans shaped the political landscape of the time.

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

Signs demanding “LA belongs to Mexico” and “This city was once Mexico and it belongs to us” have been prominent among raging ...

The range of Sam Dalrymple’s book Shattered Lands is expansive. An ambitious debut, it talks about the five partitions of the ...

An Imperial Federation map showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. After World War I, the government could claim territory in every time zone.

And the sources for what happened are just simply not there to tell us when people started playing the game of hurling. What we are talking about here is a universal human experience. The story of ...

A freelance reporter in London tries to sell his boyhood stamp collection and takes a journey through memory and vanished nations.

From historic artefacts and contemporary art to interactive exhibitions, London’s best museums have something for every ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a “talking drum” that colonial troops took from the ...