The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

PROFESSOR SEELEY has pointed out, in his work on The Expansion of England, the prevailing tendency to look upon those conditions which we observe around us as having always existed, and to consider ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans were ...

LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But in Britain’s former colonies, many see her as an anchor to an ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, stand with their hosts Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, in the forests of Rajasthan, India, Jan. 24, 1961. The tiger in the foreground was shot by ...

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...

British soldiers with objects looted from the royal palace during the military expedition to Benin City in 1897 (via Wikimedia Commons) Melancholy, Paul Gilroy once argued, is a common reaction to ...

A number of artefacts from India dating to the British colonial era are among more than 600 items stolen in a burglary at a museum in Bristol, according to Avon and Somerset Police. The items were ...