So, what would you wear if you were being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire? (I confess I have personally ...

Acclaimed novelist Maggie O'Farrell has revealed that she turned down an OBE because she did not want the words “British Empire” attached to her name. In an interview with The Irish Times, the Hamnet ...

The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

A BBC documentary on the British Empire has been accused of "doing violence to the truth in a breach of its own impartiality ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

The genealogy of the term British reveals a fragile and contested historical identity – something Brexit has thrown into stark relief. In the 17th century, being British only had meaning as a colonial ...