As confrontation with Iran escalates, Washington risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency and forced imperial retreat Cargo ships in the ...

Kolhapur: Opposition politicians in Maharashtra have sharply criticised the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for allegedly dropping the ‘Maratha Empire' map from the Std ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

More than a million British homes are due a free internet upgrade from the government - a new interactive map have revealed which areas are eligible. The Project Gigabit is the government's new ...

Female dancers or nautch girls, early 20th Century. The photograph was taken by Edward Taurines, one of the first European photographers with a studio in Bombay (now Mumbai) which specialised in ...

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Excerpt: How the British Empire Chose Canada Over ...

WIDESPREAD interest throughout the British Empire and elsewhere was aroused by the Imperial Conference, attended by statesmen and representatives from the constituent parts of the Empire, which ...

More than 600 items from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire were stolen from a U.K. museum in September, police said Thursday. Avon and ...

My family didn't want me to know who my grandpa was. At 13, I finally found out why. SNL mocks Kristi Noem's firing, Hegseth on Iran in cold open What we know on the 10th day of the US and Israel’s ...

In this alternate history scenario, the United Kingdom launches an ambitious mission to reclaim its former colonies. Egypt and South Africa fall, and Australia is quickly overrun. But the empire's ...

Researchers have launched Itiner-e, an interactive digital map tracing 300,000 kilometers of ancient Roman roads. The project reveals a far more extensive Roman network than previously believed, ...