In the pre-war airliner sector, the Short Empire could still lay claim to being one of the most comfortable, luxurious, fastest, and downright fabulous ways to fly.A quad-engined flying boat that ...

CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, where the British monarch ...

In the early weeks of World War I, the German cruiser SMS Emden, under Korvettenkapitän Karl von Müller, had already ...

Those lessons beckon today for Britain, and America, too. In the end, the empire — “the red on the map” — was a symbol, not the basis, of British influence. The home islands themselves, it could be ...

The Truth About Empire promises to be “a shield against the assault on historical truth.” Its authors might do well to visit Col. Pennycuick’s memorial at Camberley before it, too, is toppled.

A dedicated volunteer has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours. Nick Hayward, from Lymington in Hampshire, has been ...