For many residents of the United Kingdom, the death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted questions about how the country is transitioning—substantively and symbolically—into a new era. Elizabeth ...
A UCSB scholar traces tea’s journey across the globe as a commodity and a tool of the British Empire If you were to take a map of the Earth and trace the rise of tea industry and culture, and then ...
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What really ended the British Empire after centuries of global power
This video explores how the British Empire began to unravel after World War II, when financial collapse, rising independence ...
Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday has ended a 70-year reign that saw the ...
Language has power. It can influence our thoughts, interactions, and even the way we dream. This multifaceted influence of language is explored in R. F. Kuang’s “Babel: Or, The Necessity of Violence: ...
Exactly 184 years ago today more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in Britain’s colonies were declared free as the Slavery Abolition Act came into effect. The Bill was the culmination of almost 50 years ...
One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
For anti-colonial thinkers of the last century, decolonization was not a mere transfer of power. It was about reparation, including repair of the self. “Decolonization is the veritable creation of new ...
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