The World Service was originally established as the BBC Empire Service in the 1930s, at a time when the British Empire was on ...

An Indonesian woman who felt duped into joining the Islamic State’s ”caliphate“ in Syria tells TIME of the challenges of ...

the British Empire. The second myth that Jackson buries is the already discredited notion of British splendid isolation. Although it suited Churchillian propaganda to make much of Fortress Britain and ...

‘L et Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920. This was a crucial year in Anglo-Irish relations, when Irish men and women were taking up arms ...

Scots appear to be unwilling to accept their country's leading role in creating the British Empire, a new poll suggests. More people believe that Scotland was simply a subject of England than a ...

Scots wrongly believe their country was a victim of the British Empire, a poll has found. A YouGov survey found that significantly more adults north of the border believed Scotland had been ...

Scots believe a "harmful myth" after being "victims" rather than partners of the British Empire, a staggering new opinion poll has revealed. A plurality (40 per cent) of the 1,067 YouGov respondents ...

EXCLUSIVE: World's richest man has been accused of putting the UK's democracy at risk with his attacks on Brit politicians after he dismissed fall out of 'Nazi salute' controversy at TR ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...