For centuries the ultimate emblem of Britishness has meant different things to different people, and now it is back in the ...

The text below the map explains: "This picture helps us to understand the wonderful way in which the British Empire is established throughout the world." In fact, by displaying oversized flags of ...

ST. LOUIS — Recently, a listener of our Royal Dish podcast asked us to explain The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and we are happy to try to break it down. These are orders that you might ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire “Queen Elizabeth was a life well ...