The New Yorker

The British Empire Was Much Worse Than You Realize

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 ...
AOL

Meghan and Harry photographer speaks out on Britain's 'colonial past'

A British-Nigerian photographer with close links to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has spoken out on Britain's "colonial past" following the Nigerian State Visit. The criticism came from Misan ...
Mashable

This politician doesn't like that there's no 'enduring reminder' of Britain's colonial atrocities

Shashi Tharoor wants Britain held to account for its atrocities in India. Credit: REX/Shutterstock Indian parliamentarian and renowned author Shashi Tharoor wants museums to be built to chronicle ...
The Nation

Worldwide Devastation

British colonials with a pet cheetah in Secunderabad, India, 1906. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images) In 2005, Britain’s then–Labour chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, chose the backdrop of ...
Time

America Is in Denial About Its British Imperialist Origins

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Colonial British America essays in the new history of the early modern era edited by Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole

Reconstructing British-American colonial history : an introduction / Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole -- The transatlantic economy / Jacob M. Price -- The domestic economy / Richard B. Sheridan -- Spatial ...
The New York Times

In Africa, the queen’s death renews a debate about the legacy of the British Empire.

While some in Africa paid tribute to the deceased monarch, others stressed Britain’s violent colonial history on the continent. By Abdi Latif Dahir Lynsey Chutel and Elian Peltier NAIROBI, Kenya — ...