A short clip has been circulating on Instagram, often paired with gin labels and captions about empire and empire-building. It shows a stiff-backed British aristocrat aboard a yacht, briefly ...

A D-Day veteran awarded a British Empire Medal has said Britain today is “disappointing” and warned the country risks repeating mistakes made before the Second World War. Mervyn Kersh, 101, from ...

Amy and Ryan Jackson, co-founders of the Lily Mae Foundation, have each been awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Year Honours list A couple who founded a charity to support parents who have lost ...

As the Western Empire buckled, Britain slipped from imperial control into self-rule, economic collapse, and relentless raids, until new peoples arrived and the old Roman cities emptied into legend.

Historical empires like Spain, Britain, and the Soviet Union have experienced economic decline through seven identifiable stages, including military overextension and currency debasement.

A wave of online discussion blaming China’s last imperial dynasty for national historical sufferings has prompted official criticism after touching on sensitive questions, and ignited debate over ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

Mr Crais makes an even bolder argument, and applies it more broadly. Over 700 gore-splattered pages, he contends that ...

India on Sunday rejected what it described as "misleading propaganda" in sections of the Bangladeshi media regarding a protest held outside the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi and asserted ...

MGM Empire City in Yonkers has withdrawn its application for one of three state gaming licenses up for grabs in the downstate region, saying the economic conditions have changed. In a letter to the ...

250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?

Researchers are adding new evidence to the emerging concept that 'silent' or synonymous mutations may have crucial consequences. Their study showed how a synonymous mutation in one gene can ...