The British rule in India came to an end on August 15, 1947, as the once-mighty British Empire and the British East India Company became a shadow of their former selves post World War 2. Notably, the ...

On June 6, 1944, the British found themselves suddenly and irrevocably overtaken by their former colony.

Ever since the first Star Wars film, Imperial officers have had English accents, which reflected both George Lucas' inspirations and Star Wars lore.

From Northern Ireland to Kenya to Malaya, Queen Elizabeth II oversaw violence during her reign across the shrinking British Empire ...

The Daughters of the British Empire El Paso chapter is an organization that does several charity works in El Paso and statewide.

“The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the scope and power of the nation and its occupied territories.

London has been described as a city built on the spoils of empire, prompting visitors, at least over a damp weekend in March, to wonder why more of these spoils weren’t spent on proper indoor heating.

Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday peacefully at home in Scotland after a remarkable 70-year reign. We cannot talk about the British monarchy without confronting the colonial horrors of this ...

The questions over the queen’s role in Britain’s violent empire, explained by a historian An expert on the British Empire explains “Her Majesty’s government” in the 20th century.

Elizabeth II, the long-reigning British queen who buoyed a shrinking empire and an increasingly embattled monarchy, died on Thursday at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands, at ...

As the historian David Edgerton writes in his The Rise and Fall of the British Nation, “by the time she was crowned in 1953, the implied unitary empire had already gone”. Elizabeth II ascended to the ...