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

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 ...

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, ...

The idea of the benevolent British Empire is pure myth. From ruthlessly crushing rebellion, to abetting the murders of indigenous peoples, to allowing its colonial subjects to starve, the history of ...

Only a very confident historian with a massive, comprehensive, and thoroughly researched manuscript would willingly invite comparisons with the British historian Edward Gibbon. Brendon, a Cambridge ...

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 ...

For many residents of the United Kingdom, the death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted questions about how the country is transitioning—substantively and symbolically—into a new era. Elizabeth ...

Velu Nachiyar lost her husband, her kingdom, and everything she had to the British in 1772. She spent eight years hiding in ...

Only a fifth of voters believe the British Empire is something modern Britain should be ashamed of, a new poll suggests. A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in the ...