A Staffordshire wildlife stalwart has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for her decades of work in rescuing and ...

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In Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World (Monthly Review Press, 2025), Steve Cushion lays bare the ...

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen. In ...

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 ...

Thousands of athletes will attend, but the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will be a threadbare event. 2026 will signal the ...

Born in 1915 in Manipur’s misty hills, Rani Gaidinliu was only 13 when she joined her cousin Haipou Jadonang’s Heraka ...

Joyce Gyimah, in a heartwarming ceremony on Wednesday, November 5, received the British Empire Medal from His Majesty’s ...

Explore the surprising connection between colonial violence and modern food, from pumpkin spice lattes to Indian street food, ...

For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new ...

There is another honor for Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger - but this one isn't your everyday honor. On Tuesday in England, Iger officially became an honorary Knight of the Order of the British ...