PhD researcher, 19th century British travel literature on India and Italy, University of Nottingham The politician and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay imagined, in 1840, the fall of a great empire ...

In his new book, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, the Indian politician and writer Shashi Tharoor attempts to dismantle the ongoing argument that British imperialism was, in the long ...

Scots played an important role in the British involvement in India and it eventually becoming a key part of the British Empire. Scots provided leadership of the East India Company Scots provided ...

Britain’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, died aged 96 on Thursday at Balmoral in Scotland after 70 years as head of state. While millions mourned and tributes poured in from world ...

It was never a question of whether but rather of one when a British of Indian extraction would lead Britain. How did that happen, and could Kenya be next? At the height of the British Empire, India ...