Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday has ended a 70-year reign that saw the ...

The war involved people from all over the world. Great Britain, Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary all ruled empires. Their colonies sent supplies, food and soldiers to help in the war effort.

A UCSB scholar traces tea’s journey across the globe as a commodity and a tool of the British Empire If you were to take a map of the Earth and trace the rise of tea industry and culture, and then ...

For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Australian TV host Rowan Dean has called for a new British Empire ...

One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...