Last week I wrote about the Rohingya, an ethnic group in Myanmar who have undergone intense persecution from both the ...

Who writes history? It depends on who you read. Dr. Bright Alozie of Portland State University considers himself a historian ...

Slavery would have been practiced in this region, but abolished along with slavery in the rest of the British Empire in 1834, with no Civil War. If the other colonial powers had all stayed allied ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United ...

The Colonial Era living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, offers an enlightening portrait of life in ...

Remembrance Day should be “decolonised”, campaigners say as they call for an end to “nationalist narratives” that “whitewash” and “glorify” the British Empire.

Five newly elected councilors in Dawson City, Canada, have refused to swear a mandatory oath of allegiance to Britain's King ...

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi criticised the syllabus for allegedly fostering a narrative that celebrates the British for ...

Christopher Patten, Hong Kong's last British colonial governor who oversaw its handover to Chinese rule in 1997, is among the ...

Britain should be proud of its "achievements", instancing the model of common law and other British institutions in former colonies. He wrote: "I'm not ashamed of our history. It may not feel like ...

Under the plans, those with an OBE -Order of the British Empire – may choose to recieve an Order of British Excellence, ...