Between 1765 and 1900, the British Empire took $64.82 trillion from India during colonialism, a recent Oxfam report has found ...

This was literally true by the early 20th century when British colonies spanned the globe. After World War II, a victorious ...

George Orwell's years in the British Raj ignited a firestorm of ideas that would shape the world’s most iconic warnings ...

How did the British colonies become so successful? Because the British colonized North America in much greater numbers than the Dutch and French, they proved to be more successful. As a result, the ...

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A Way to Get Wealth English colonial ambition and the exhortations of the Hakluyts set the stage for England's first lasting settlement in the New World: Jamestown. The colony on Chesapeake Bay ...

Since we penned the article last week about Patents for the Colonies of Britain, we have received a letter from a correspondent, who states that the British Government has no right nor business to ...

Oxfam's report exposes colonial exploitation, wealth extraction, and inequality, linking past injustices to modern global ...

This allowed British control to continue and prevented most Black people from voting. The 1830s had seen a push for colonial emigration to Australia. The Aboriginal people were met with violence ...

A fascinating new photography project takes viewers on a poignant journey through African American material culture, using objects found in the libraries, museums, and archives of the original ...