A British-colonial United States sets up an alternate history scenario shaped by war, empire, and rebellion. The short ...

UNTIL the decade before the last world war, British policy in the colonies had aimed chiefly at the establishment of order, the extension of the rule of law, the control of abuses, the creation of ...

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This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Scott Bade, studied history at Stanford University, international security analyst: In short, the British treated their colonies in vastly ...

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 ...

A 60-year-old wound in Kenya has finally found its recompense. Last week, the British government finalized an out-of-court settlement with thousands of Kenyans who were tortured in detention camps ...

Of the 72 countries with laws criminalising homosexuality still on the books in 2018, at least 38 of them were once subject to some sort of British colonial rule. People hold rainbow flags as they ...