More than 600 items from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire were ...

LONDON — Four spears taken from Australia by a British explorer more than 250 years ago will be returned by Cambridge University to descendants of the indigenous community that crafted them, in the ...

The British Empire, at its height, was one of the largest and most powerful empires in history, controlling vast territories and people across the globe. During its colonial rule, many cultural ...

The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday has ended a 70-year reign that saw the fall of the British empire and the introduction of the Commonwealth of Nations.

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 ...

On a cloud-spackled Sunday last June, protesters in Bristol, England, gathered at a statue of Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader on whose watch more than eighty thousand Africans were ...

For most Americans, D-Day remains the most famous battle of World War II. It was not the end of the war against Nazism. At most, it was the beginning of the end. Yet it continues to resonate 80 years ...