Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

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 ...

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Histories of imperialism, especially the European imperialism of the 19th and 20th centuries, were long dominated by purportedly neutral accounts that sanitized the often bloody practice. More ...

Britain’s reparations debate has taken a sharper turn after former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman argued that Britain’s former colonies should repay the United Kingdom for the infrastructure, ...

We host a roundtable on the life and legacy of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. She was the country’s longest-reigning monarch, serving for 70 years and presiding over ...

While some in Africa paid tribute to the deceased monarch, others stressed Britain’s violent colonial history on the continent. By Abdi Latif Dahir Lynsey Chutel and Elian Peltier NAIROBI, Kenya — ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Geoffrey Wheatcroft LEGACY OF VIOLENCE A History of the British Empire By Caroline Elkins This ...

As usual, something reminded me of a historical phenomenon we need to reexamine: the old British Empire and its legacy to the world. The recent outbreak of mass demonstrations in Hong Kong aimed at ...