The study of Empire has always been political. But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the ...

and India — where nearly all the countries share a history of being ruled by the British Empire as a territory or colony. While most of these commonwealth countries are independent from the ...

This month marks 80 years since Singapore, a British colony with significant strategic importance was invaded and subsequently captured by the Empire ... For the defeated Commonwealth soldiers ...

King Charles III could see his power over the Commonwealth dwindle. Maps showing the countries that have ditched — and kept — the crown prove his energy is better spent elsewhere. When Queen ...

Some Commonwealth members were never part of the British Empire Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said he will raise LGBT rights with leaders of Commonwealth nations on the fringes of the meeting.

The VII British Empire Commonwealth Games in the Australian city of Perth will mostly be remembered for their "heat, dust and glory" as the second Commonwealth Games to visit Australian shores had ...

Grant of £1m ‘just the beginning’ of plans to fund understanding of British shipping’s role in the 18th and 19th-century ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 ... our long-term relationship with ...

They all got on a ship: the Empire Windrush ... the time they could live and work in Britain. British Nationality Act 1948 Anyone with a Commonwealth passport had the same legal right to live ...

The VII British Empire Commonwealth Games in the Australian city of Perth will mostly be remembered for their "heat, dust and glory" as the second Commonwealth Games to visit Australian shores had ...