The University of Cambridge has transferred legal ownership of 116 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. The artefacts were looted in 1897 from Benin City, now in Nigeria, by British armed forces. This returning ...

President Trump’s attack plans for Iran have roiled a deal for the United Kingdom to cede control of the tiny and isolated ...

A new exhibition - called Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920, and organised by DAG, the Delhi-based ...

Mohinder Singh’s edited volume, Secret and Private Papers of the Akali Movement (1920-25), is a substantial addition to scholarship on the Gurdwara Reform Movement in colonial Punjab. The Akali ...

Britain’s history is intertwined with empire and colonialism. The UK was forged as a nation-state alongside, and partly to ...

After creating an economic mess with ill-advised tariffs, Hitler looked north in pursuit of resources and national security.

The event, titled "Some Tea and Loaf Sugar: Tea and Society at Michilimackinac," will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25 on Zoom. According to a community announcement, the program is part of ...

Sponsored content Canada stretches from Pacific rainforests to Arctic tundra, with the Rocky Mountains and shimmering Great ...

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

Look at a map. Port Louis, Mauritius’ capital, is roughly 1,300 miles from the Chagos Islands; Malé in the Maldives is only 300 miles away. The Maldives also straddles the same oceanic ridge that runs ...

Mackinac State Historic Parks is hosting a fascinating virtual program that explores how tea shaped British society at remote ...

On Feb. 17, 1776, George Washington was in Cambridge, Mass., worrying about powder stores, artillery placements and the reliability of men who had signed up to fight but not necessarily to stay. The ...