How photography helped the British Empire classify India

A new exhibition in Delhi showcases 200 rare photographs that fixed identities in colonial India.

The British Empire was a millstone around our neck, not an asset

The rotting Old Republican Palace in Khartoum, first erected in the 1830s and rebuilt by the British in 1899 after the Battle ...

Britain Can No Longer Hide Behind the Myth That Its Empire Was Benign

The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
Newsweek

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

Australian TV host Rowan Dean has called for a new British Empire following the death of the Queen in a clip that has gone viral. Speaking on Sky News Australia, Dean's guest, James Morrow, also ...
The Economist

Sathnam Sanghera returns to the subject of the British Empire

Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe. By Sathnam Sanghera. Viking; 464 pages; £20. To be published in America by PublicAffairs in May; $35 THE BRITISH EMPIRE is out of fashion, ...
ABP News on MSN

ABP Deep Dive | From Victoria Memorial To Lutyens’ Delhi: How British Shifted Power And Lost The Empire Soon After

On 13 February 1931, the British Empire inaugurated New Delhi as the capital of the Raj, a city of sweeping avenues, imperial ...
Time

BRITISH EMPIRE: From the Inside

‘Winnie” Recharts His Hectic Course as Suzerain of the Seas Now on the outside of politics, Winston Churchill gives full vent to his literary genius. His book,* except for some too technical pages, is ...