The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

Queen Victoria had several wards and godchildren from British colonies, including Africa and India. The godchildren were treated like family, but also subject to strict control, according to ...

PROFESSOR SEELEY has pointed out, in his work on The Expansion of England, the prevailing tendency to look upon those conditions which we observe around us as having always existed, and to consider ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But in Britain’s former colonies, many see her as an anchor to an ...

HONG KONG, June 21 (Reuters) - Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong's British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is ...

In the annals of finest-hour mythmaking, there are two abiding articles of faith: first, that the United Kingdom bravely ...

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, stand with their hosts Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, in the forests of Rajasthan, India, Jan. 24, 1961. The tiger in the foreground was shot by ...