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 ...

Throughout its history, the British Empire has taken countless artifacts ... were antithetical to modernity," Chika Okeke-Agulu, an art historian and professor at Princeton University, said.

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories of British Colonialism; By Alan Lester Hurst; 304 pp., 34.95 Pennycuick, a British Indian Army engineer, achieved deification for building the Mullaperiyar Dam ...

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 ...

Only the British empire was expected to survive as the standard-bearer of imperialism, alongside two very different superpower peers: the Soviet Union and the United States. Within weeks of D-Day ...