Ten thousand Britons crowded into Hyde Park last week on Queen Victoria’s birthday, more popularly known as Empire Day, which England sets aside to honor her great inheritance. In the natural ...

Ambitious little ex-Cockney Herbert Morrison, Britain’s Socialist Home Secretary, rose to his feet last week to calm an uproar. His Prime Minister started the uproar two months ago with a statement on ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

Imperial nostalgia correlates strongly with support beyond the main parties: positively with Reform and negatively with the ...

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites. All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the ...

The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II set into motion a historic transition of power—not just in Great Britain but in 54 countries across the world that maintain ties to the royal family as members of the ...

As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas pudding was something of a shock. I had expected figs or plums, as in the “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” carol, but there ...