Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

The British Empire is a proxy for the West. The phrase “colonialism and slavery” is often used to sum it up, as if the two things were identical. And it is common to hear British colonialism ...

To the British, India served as the jewel of the British Empire. The coffers of Britain overflowed with wealth extracted from the subcontinent. The initial acquisition of India under the British ...

In the British Empire, this was done using a lot of force ... as well as the fact that some of the current crown jewels were taken from India, is one of the reasons some historians say the colony ...

The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...

Schoolchildren should not be taught about the "greatness of the British Empire", an education charity ... echoed concerns about current history teaching, noting it remains "focused on narrow ...