He later served as prime minister of the British Empire from 1766 to 1768. The other street created in 1753 was Wolfe Street, which was then the south end of town. It was named for Gen. James ...

The end of British colonial rule birthed two sovereign nations—but hastily drawn borders caused simmering tensions to boil over. 75 years later, memories of Partition still haunt survivors.

The years from 1812 to 1821 mark the dramatic decline and eventual fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire. This video explores the critical period starting with the disastrous Russian campaign of ...

Subramania Sivam, a fiery orator and freedom fighter, ignited patriotic fervor in Tamil Nadu with his powerful speeches against British rule. Inspired by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sivam, alongside V.O ...

Despite all the pageantry of the last two days, it is a truth universally acknowledged that the British Empire ain't what it used to be. But economist Peter Hammond, guesting at Debraj Ray's blog ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.

Black British historian Steve Martin welcomes the idea of teaching children about the empire. But all too often it is told only from the "white perspective", he says. "I remember being taught this at ...

Her first trade book Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean is due to be published in June 2025. In 2021, it received the Eccles Institute Writer’s and Hay Festival Award. Kofi ...

OS Maps – part of Great Britain’s national mapping service Ordnance Survey – has been appointed as Official Digital Mapping Partner to the Lloyds Tour of Britain, the UK’s biggest free-to-spectate ...

Slavery is abolished in the British empire. In 1834, slaves in the British empire started a period of 'apprenticeship', during which they were obliged to work without pay for their former owners.

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

A Falklands War veteran has been awarded a British Empire Medal for his voluntary work to help his fellow veterans. Denzil Connick, 66, from Blackwood, was honored in King Charles III’s first ...