The Second World War dramatically altered the global balance of power, and the aftermath of the conflict saw a major shift in ...

The idea of the benevolent British Empire is pure myth. From ruthlessly crushing rebellion, to abetting the murders of indigenous peoples, to allowing its colonial subjects to starve, the history of ...

Englishman Thomas Stukeley offered his services to various Catholic powers. He died while fighting for the Portuguese at the ...

Perhaps that's why they later wrote the song "Her Majesty" a few years later. Brown wrote that in 2002, McCartney performed at the late Queen's 2002 Golden Jubilee, and when he was asked about meeting ...

Prince Harry's team has taken a swipe at a tabloid rival two weeks running as a lawsuit between the pair looms.

In the pursuit of a historical fantasy, today’s rulers want to erase the reality that modern India would be unrecognisable ...

The elements of the story could be taken directly from a thriller: a British whistleblower with military credentials, secret meetings with top justice officials, a trail of encrypted spreadsheets ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with actor Kristin Scott Thomas and her husband, journalist John Micklethwait. The pair wrote the screenplay for the new movie, "My Mother's Wedding." ...

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

Battlefield 6's premise of the USA facing invasion makes me want to play an FPS in which the USA are the baddies being invaded.

Moreover the “British empire does not now exist following the complete decolonization of Britain’s former overseas territories.” It wasn’t Amin’s only attempt to reshape the international order.

John Seabrook’s history of Seabrook Farms, where many incarcerated Japanese Americans worked during WWII, is ultimately about ...