A mix of professional soldiers, Loyalist militias and opportunistic raiders descended on the area as British forces sought to ...

It was 1775 and tensions were rising between Great Britain and the 13 colonies of North American, led by George Washington.

The Total War series is not just a strategy game, it is a hybrid beast with two heads. One is strategic, turn-based: on a ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

I always knew of his connection to Kenya, but it wasn’t until the elders died that I learned of his role in suppressing the Mau Mau uprising.

creating what most historians call the first empire in the world,” Girsu Project Director Sébastien Rey, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya ...

This month, a new campaign by the British Beauty Council and Sustainable Beauty Coalition ... specifically for recyclable waste. So, to a solution: the map. Simply enter your postcode and you’ll be ...

Dolan, who as Ronald Reagan’s chief speechwriter deployed the phrase “evil empire” in 1983 to describe ... Mr. Dolan wrote for delivery to the British Parliament in 1982.

In last week’s UK album chart, the highest-positioned British band was Oasis with their greatest hits collection. The Manchester band’s 1994 debut Definitely Maybe was also the UK’s top ...

The British needed to study the topography ... the inflection point in the history of South India. The map has just about every empire represented: the Carnatic, with its Nawab, is a huge presence ...

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the Empire's collapse ... allowing the team to map dates for when it was inhabited. They hypothesize residents fled the ...