Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the death of Queen Elizabeth II last September, Britain can pen a new chapter under King Charles III. Regarding the question ...

The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queen Victoria had several wards and godchildren from British colonies, including Africa and India. The godchildren were treated ...

LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But in Britain’s former colonies, many see her as an anchor to an ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, stand with their hosts Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, in the forests of Rajasthan, India, Jan. 24, 1961. The tiger in the foreground was shot by ...

My mother, now a New Yorker, grew up speaking the Queen’s English. Her father was an Anglophile who excelled as a lawyer in a British legal system. He dressed in tweed jackets, drank tea with milk and ...

British soldiers with objects looted from the royal palace during the military expedition to Benin City in 1897 (via Wikimedia Commons) Melancholy, Paul Gilroy once argued, is a common reaction to ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans were ...

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...

A number of artefacts from India dating to the British colonial era are among more than 600 items stolen in a burglary at a museum in Bristol, according to Avon and Somerset Police. The items were ...