The four spears are all that remain of the 40 or so that James Cook and his team took from the Gweagal people on their arrival in Australia in 1770 when ... of the British empire, particularly ...

More recently there has been a resurgence of apologias for empires in general and the British empire especially, from such writers as Niall Ferguson, Ian Morris, and several of the neoconservative ...

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...