Five Centuries of British Art,” takes visitors on a journey spanning the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the present. The display opens with 16th-century portraits of nobles and other symbols of empire ...

It accompanies a new book of the same title, written by Bruce Peter, professor of design history at The Glasgow School of Art. This 3D model of the British Empire Exhibition of 1938 in ...

The other, the Yale Center for British Art, with its specialized collection ... She hopes to “open up questions about empire, gender, the role of women.” As universities are in jeopardy ...

When Zainul Abedin left Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1947, as India and Pakistan negotiated a partition-ridden freedom from the ...

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At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...