Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron stood side by side in Paris on Monday to commemorate the 106th anniversary of the Armistice. Nations across the world honored ...

Many European leaders have marked the end 106 years ago of World War I with warnings that liberty should be cherished and defended as armed conflict has returned to the continent ...

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From 1815 to 1924 the number rocketed to 25 million ... and Christian humanitarianism had not only abolished slavery within the British Empire but was engaged in securing legislation to protect ...

putting the best British movies up against anywhere else in the world. Team Empire put our heads together, got into some spirited debates and ultimately came up with our choices. From Hitchcock to ...

And so, with tracksuits on, geezer nicknames doled out, and knuckles dusted, Team Empire assembled a list of the very best British gangster movies ever made. From comedy classics, to bruising turn ...

"Not many people these days know that the British Empire was the driving force behind ending the vast majority of global slavery. Slavery or de facto slavery was standard practice throughout the world ...

Elon Musk used references to the Bible to defend the British Empire’s role in the slave trade in his latest wide-of-the-mark tweet. The Tesla CEO provoked controversy on social media after ...

It didn’t matter to us that Ireland was not part of the British Empire any more, or that it generally received the sharp end of matters when it was. For me, such incongruities were not allowed ...

In 212AD an emperor called Caracalla extended Roman citizenship to all free people in the Roman empire, who had to pay him taxes and bear his name. His example later inspired the British empire to ...

Here’s how it works. Shipwreck hunters have discovered the wreck of a British submarine that sank near Greece in 1943, solving an 81-year-old mystery about its disappearance. HMS Trooper ...