Peter Watson’s ambitious survey celebrates 500 years of innovation in science — but is patchier on the arts and the legacy of ...

it’s as if the ghosts of imperial history that she set out to vanquish had returned to inhabit her book. The story of the British Empire in the twentieth century is also a story of forced ...

So I think to understand American history, you really do have to understand British Empire as well. SIMON: Yeah. A good portion of the book is phrased as a personal journey. You're from a Sikh ...

Arguments exist for each characterisation. But there is one thing that the British Empire is not: completely over. Two new books consider the “here” and “there”. “One Fine Day” is a ...

So it was also with South Asia. In 1946, Sir Francis Tucker, the head of Eastern Command, proposed a British protectorate ...

A book which will be welcome to many who have found it impossible to keep track of the rapidly changing relationships between different parts of the British Empire. The book is distinguished by ...

While the apogee of the globe-spanning empire passed decades ago ... In any event, “the collapse of British power,” chronicled by historian Correlli Barnett in his book of that name, can be seen as a ...

The British Empire was once the largest empire in history, controlling vast territories across every continent. But how did the British manage to rule the world for centuries? This video explores the ...

But in the flush days of Queen Victoria’s empire, the British conscience was not always so sensitive. In this lively book, Historian Bernard Semmel recounts the brutal re action of the British ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...