The rotting Old Republican Palace in Khartoum, first erected in the 1830s and rebuilt by the British in 1899 after the Battle ...

If you want to claim a territory, it’s good to have a map to show what’s yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a ...

Some see Queen Elizabeth II's death as an opportunity to acknowledge the struggles of those who were affected by British ...

The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an awkward subject, they avoid it, change the subject, make tea. Nowhere is this more so than with the topic of the British Empire. The ...

In 1960, known as the “Year of Africa,” 17 African nations gained independence, 13 of them from France, marking the formal collapse of one of Europe’s largest colonial empires . Yet independence did ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

This book, a must-read for anyone interested in decolonization or Cold War diplomacy, is the definitive diplomatic history of U.S.-Portuguese relations in the 1960s and 1970s, in the context of ...

THE Prime Minister has appointed a Committee of the Economic Advisory Council with the following terms of reference: “(1) To survey the present state of knowledge in regard to nutrition in the ...

Other than the British Empire, there were several nations and empires in the world's history that colonised other regions for prolonged periods of time. Some of these nations even fought with each ...