Some initially criticized Elkins’ findings as exaggerated, but they were vindicated years later after Kenyan torture victims sued the British ... in the former empire and now current ...

The British Empire in particular is presented as essential to the appearance of a modern and liberal world order, usually with the argument that the United States should now take up that mantle.

However some historians now suggest that the death toll may ... in an attempt to gain independence from the British Empire. Then, in 1947, following years of campaigning, British India was ...

But the “new humanism” envisioned by these thinkers could not flourish, as first the Cold War, and then ... “Empire Day 2.0”—an update to the pro-empire holiday that was part of the ...

While the apogee of the globe-spanning empire passed decades ago, this is, the Financial Times reports, “the first time in more than three centuries” that night will fall on British territory. There’s ...

People from all over Scotland were participants in and drivers of the British Empire, both at home and overseas, and the profits of these ventures helped to build the cities, towns, villages ...

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase ... a major chapter in world history has just now come to a close. As first highlighted last year on Reddit, the spring ...