Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken ...

The British Museum’s new trustees, including anti-restitution author Tiffany Jenkins, step into a heated debate over the ...

The news of the gruesome execution of Ehelepola’s family was conveyed to D’Oyly by Major Davie, who was taken prisoner during the 1803 war in Kandy. All efforts to find the whereabouts of the British ...

The Chagos Islands, officially known as the “British Indian Ocean Territory,” are one of the last vestiges of the British Empire ... Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. The islands were administered ...

The amount spent on British Army adverts is set to nearly double as the Ministry of Defence looks to resolve the Armed Forces recruitment crisis, new figures show. More than £17.2 million is ...

None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is split between a galactic void and the Opal coast in Northern France. After the ...

The British Empire is a proxy for the West. The phrase “colonialism and slavery” is often used to sum it up, as if the two things were identical. And it is common to hear British colonialism ...

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There was only one qualification needed for the post of a Victorian colonial governor: he had to be a gentleman. But gentlemen had to be tough and ingenious. Laying down the law in Lagos in the 1860s, ...

As British, Austrian, Russian, and Austrian forces once again came together to stop Napoleon in 1815, Napoleon gathered forces to rebuild his empire. His final campaigns, fought in Belgium ...

After the death of his wife, local newspaper writer Tony (Ricky Gervais) gets stuck on the second stage of grief: anger. With nothing left to live for, he decides to fill the lives of everyone ...