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 ...
HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...
Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal ...
The British Museum has announced a major new collaboration with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. The institution has commissioned new works by the artist that will respond directly to items from its ...
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 ...
A Kerala woman’s fiery response to two British tourists over colonial loot, including the Kohinoor diamond, goes viral on ...
The British traveller posed the question to his travel companion while visiting the National Museum in New Delhi, sparking ...
A video from Kerala showing an Indian woman light-heartedly confronting two British tourists over the British colonial loot, ...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, stand with their hosts Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, in the forests of Rajasthan, India, Jan. 24, 1961. The tiger in the foreground was shot by ...