Today marks Emancipation Day, a celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act becoming law across The British Empire back in 1834.

CNN’s Peter Bergen interviews Harvard University historian Caroline Elkins about the legacy of the British Empire and the future of countries in the Commonwealth, where the British monarch ...

Bodley Head; 384 pages; £25 T he British Empire was and is many things to many people: a civilising endeavour, a bringer of peace, an exploitative force or a project based on white supremacy.