My long time friend and colleague Ed Spannaus, has recently authored, Busting the Myth of the ldquo;Abolitionist rdquo; ...

Born into a struggling Irish family in colonial Australia, Ned Kelly became the British Empire's most wanted outlaw after a ...

For centuries, people claimed the sun never set on the British Empire—and at its peak, that was almost literally true. This documentary explores how Britain built the largest empire in history, ...

Those who govern would do well to read Indian history. Ours has always been a movement polity, writes Sanjay Hegde ...

What was Nigeria called before 1914? From ancient kingdoms to colonial protectorates, here is the true story behind our ...

From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, these are the best low fantasy books that bring ...

The late Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, celebrated their wedding in 1947 with a 9-foot ...

Before Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii in ash, it was a thriving city filled with busy homes and bustling streets.

In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted the East India Company a royal charter and a monopoly over trade across much of the known world. For more than a century, the relationship was mutually advantageous: ...

But one thing survived all of it. One thing that every central bank in the world is quietly accumulating — while publicly ...

Maybe Germans did once give rugby a try, but not being converted declined to tackle it and instead elected to pass and pack ...

I grew up thinking I knew my grandmother. Or at least as much as she allowed anyone to know. Granny Potter, as we called her, ...