KEENE, N.H. British Empire -- The Acorn Media DVD titled "The British Empire in Color" does not make for pleasant viewing. It is a three-part, 147-minute look at how the British government mismanaged ...

The history of England is one of invasion, revolution, and transformation, shaping the world we know today. From the early ...

British schoolchildren have long been taught comforting fairy tales about the beneficence of the largest empire in history, but recent historical scholarship is painting a quite different picture.

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.