NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Matthew J. Smith, director of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London, about the commonwealth's complicated history. The ...

A shot of magnifier glass over map. Looking, searching, research information and traveling Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful ...

The young and dynamic mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, when asked what he would say to visiting British monarch King Charles said, "If I was to speak to the king ... I would probably encourage ...

I am an 80-year-old Sudanese-American journalist who has lived in Washington, D.C., since 1980. I’m now finishing the first draft of a long memoir about my journey from a small Muslim village to the ...

It has long been said that “the sun never sets on the British Empire,” referring to the United Kingdom’s colonies around the globe. Will the death of Queen Elizabeth II trigger further shrinking of ...

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 ...

You’ve probably never heard of the Chagos Islands, and I’m sorry to put them on your to-worry-about list. I’m doing so because this remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean includes Diego Garcia, which ...

For close to a century, the British colonial regime in India ran a narcotic empire which became its second largest source of income after land revenue. Beneath the lucrative British narco trade hides ...

“THE THINGS the British did in India are simply not taught in the syllabus and this is a problem,” said William Dalrymple at the Jaipur Literary Festival in September 2020. “When the British go out ...

More often than not, what the eye becomes accustomed to, it no longer sees. This is also true for our diverse architecture – the buildings we grew up with and take for granted, although it was not the ...