British History in-depth

Britain has been shaped by turmoil between its nations, and tension between state and church. But centuries of conflict would ...
CNN

Opinion: The British Empire: A legacy of violence?

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 ...
The New Criterion

Rewriting the history of the British Empire

In the new film of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, the writer and director Patricia Rozema includes an early scene that is not in the book. As Fanny Price departs from her family in Portsmouth to ...
The Africa Report

Sunset of British empire in Africa: Political myths and historical facts

King Charles III stopped short of apologising for “unjustifiable” British colonial violence when he visited Kenya in October. A new book by the historian Stacey Hynd shows the depth of British ...
insider.si.edu

The British Empire before the American Revolution

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 ...
The Economist

The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
The Conversation

A genealogy of the term British reveals its imperial history – and a Brexit paradox

The genealogy of the term British reveals a fragile and contested historical identity – something Brexit has thrown into stark relief. In the 17th century, being British only had meaning as a colonial ...