The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday has ended a 70-year reign that saw the fall of the British empire and the introduction of the Commonwealth of Nations.

The Commonwealth may not be well-known stateside, but elsewhere, it's been a force in international relations for going on a century. Below, the colonial history of the voluntary association, its ...

The British empire embarked on a successful and far-reaching anti-slavery campaign in the first half of the 19th century, one of the first global humanitarian efforts of its kind. Professor Maeve Ryan ...

19th Century British Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale to make available searchable, full-text digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. The aim was to ...