Between 1837, when the first indentured migrants from India landed in British Guiana and were despatched to a handful of sugar plantations in the colony, and 1917, when the state-supervised system of ...

When the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury on 22 June 1948, hundreds of Caribbean migrants stepped onto British soil with ...

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

We look at how the death of Queen Elizabeth II is prompting former British colonies in the Caribbean to replace the British monarch as their head of state. Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister has ...

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same Kinsey Gidick An 1812 illustration of a private from the ...

His new series brushes over facts which might confuse its black-and-white narrative Let us do what David Olusoga doesn’t do.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Matthew J. Smith, director of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London, about the commonwealth's complicated history. The ...

Collection of 2 map fragments, including one depicting the Ottoman Empire and another depicting British colonies in the Caribbean. Each fragment is detached from a larger map and measures ...

Beverly Lemire receives funding from organization: SSHRC, the University of Alberta, the Killam Foundation - in the form of a Killam Research Fellowship University of Alberta provides funding as a ...