Police said they wanted to talk to four unidentified men, all wearing caps or hoodies, seen in the CCTV images carrying bags ...

Detectives are appealing for help after hundreds of artefacts documenting British colonial history were stolen.

A new book covers Britain’s colonial era from the absorption of Ireland to the start of the empire’s unraveling. The 19th-century United Kingdom is to the modern reader half familiar and half foreign.

His new series brushes over facts which might confuse its black-and-white narrative Let us do what David Olusoga doesn’t do.

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 ...

How does the United States of America match up with all these behemoths? The United States is certainly the world’s most powerful nation ever, militarily speaking. It combines the British ingenuity ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Matthew J. Smith, director of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London, about the commonwealth's complicated history. The ...

This porcelain pot with enamel decorations is one of 100 teapots on display in the Met's updated British Galleries. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1940 ...

More than 600 items, including military medals and jewellery from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire, were stolen from a UK museum in ...

London: More than 600 items from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire were stolen from a UK ...