Cynthia Erivo joins the Order of the British Empire in style

So, what would you wear if you were being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire? (I confess I have personally ...
The Express Tribune

'Hamnet' author Maggie O’Farrell rejected OBE because she didn’t want British Empire in her name

Acclaimed novelist Maggie O'Farrell has revealed that she turned down an OBE because she did not want the words “British Empire” attached to her name. In an interview with The Irish Times, the Hamnet ...
Opinion

William Dalrymple: ‘The Scots and Irish like to be the ones who resisted empire, but we were deeply complicit’

The bestselling author and co-presenter of the Empire podcast has brought the Jaipur Literature Festival to Ireland ...
Newsweek

How the Queen’s Modern Commonwealth Compared to the Former British Empire

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on ...
The New Criterion

Rewriting the history of the British Empire

In the new film of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, the writer and director Patricia Rozema includes an early scene that is not in the book. As Fanny Price departs from her family in Portsmouth to ...
Newsweek

Australian TV Host Calls for New Colonialism: ‘Bring Back British Empire’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Australian TV host Rowan Dean has called for a new British Empire ...
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‘A Thirst for Empire’

A UCSB scholar traces tea’s journey across the globe as a commodity and a tool of the British Empire If you were to take a map of the Earth and trace the rise of tea industry and culture, and then ...