Among its aims, the institute sought to promote British architecture both at home and throughout the British Empire. Alongside other 19th century Royal Charter bodies, it attempted to legitimise ...

Some of the royal artefacts were stolen by British colonisers during the 19th Century Anglo-Ashanti war. Butter sculptures of British royalty and a working coalmine were on display but what was it ...

Welsh was actively discouraged in schools by means including the hated Welsh Not. The mid-19th century was a turbulent period ...

Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa ... owning in 1807 and slave trading in 1834 throughout the British Empire proved to be two important turning points.

But in the history of art, British landscape painting is a fairly recent movement. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century ...