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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Every year, the Queen honors hundreds of citizens with the Order of the British Empire. (A 2004 parliamentary committee recommended changing the name to the Order of British Excellence ...

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 ...

Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head; 384 pages; £25 The British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising ...

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 ...

Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, but publishing books about it is in vogue. A wave of titles has hit ...