A British coin dealer has slammed the Imperial War Museum's decision to close its Lord Ashcroft Gallery as "disrespectful" ...

Its people are largely descendants of Indian labourers, Chinese traders, African slaves, and colonists from the Dutch, French, and British empires ... symbol of both the lingering legacies of the ...

Thefts, restitution demands, sponsorship protests, and fending off monsters from another dimension—it seems the demands of running the British Museum never end. At least the last one is only a ...

The Instagram clip received more than 200 likes in three days. Similar versions circulated widely on Facebook and elsewhere on Instagram. That’s not the president of Nigeria. That’s a British ...

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain should be ashamed of, a new poll suggests. A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in ...

The British Council, the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations, says it is reviewing its assets in light of a financial crisis and may sell some works from its prestigious art ...

SCOTLAND’S role in the British Empire is being wrongly politicised in the modern day – and misunderstood by both sides of the constitutional debate, experts have told the Sunday National. It comes ...

In its third year, the theme for Oxfordshire Museum's 2025 open art competition is animals. A young artist's award has also been launched for the first time, with Oxfordshire residents aged 11 to ...

After the death of his wife, local newspaper writer Tony (Ricky Gervais) gets stuck on the second stage of grief: anger. With nothing left to live for, he decides to fill the lives of everyone ...

The Ashanti Empire founded in 1670 occupied what is now southern Ghana, a modern democracy. Still today, gold is everywhere, and it’s part of a period in African and European history that we ...