Right-wing British Member of Parliament Nigel Farage responded favorably to the idea of the United States joining the British ...

The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...

Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

(THE CONVERSATION) Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal ...

The Assyrians were doing empire in the Middle East over four thousand years ago. They were followed by the Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Persians. In the 6th century BC the Carthaginians ...

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There was only one qualification needed for the post of a Victorian colonial governor: he had to be a gentleman. But gentlemen had to be tough and ingenious. Laying down the law in Lagos in the 1860s, ...

Nothing is set in stone, and ultimately this would be for new rail operators to decide, but Getlink has previously mentioned Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Zurich, Marseille, Bordeaux and Lyon as ...

IN the University of Gottingen there is apparently the only copy of a map of the British Isles published in 1603 by John Woutneel and engraved by William Kip. It is a large sheet cut into four and ...

The Independent has produced a map of the current frontline and the key spots where British peacekeeping troops could be stationed. The Anglo-French “reassurance force” would be stationed in ...

There are new hopes to save the UK's fastest declining mammal species from extinction New colonies of the UK's fastest declining mammal species have been discovered in the uplands of south Wales.