In May 2024, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch claimed that Britain was enriched by national “ingenuity and industry” rather than by colonialism and trans-Atlantic ...

The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.

Commonwealth countries want talks on slavery reparations but the United Kingdom -- engaged in soul-searching over its former empire for several years now -- is not open to financial compensation, ...

ROXBURY - Nestled in a small neighborhood in Roxbury at 42-44 Shirley St. lies a historic 18th-century former stable house. "That 9-by-9 piece of pine is original, and plaster is original, which is ...

The rotting Old Republican Palace in Khartoum, first erected in the 1830s and rebuilt by the British in 1899 after the Battle ...

The middle of the 19th century — between the abolition of slavery in much of the British Empire and the end of slavery in the United States — is often seen as an age of emancipation. But historian ...

Levant Mine, Cornwall. The Levant Mine operated from the late 18th century until its closure in 1930, mining tin and copper from beneath the sea bed. Credit - Peter Thompson—Heritage Images/Getty ...