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

Every country has a flag, but few flags have a story as powerful, as emotional, and as deeply symbolic as India’s. The Indian national flag, also known as the T ...

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 ...

The British Empire covered 24% of the Earth's land mass by 1920. Harvard historian Caroline Elkins says British rulers portrayed themselves as benevolent, but used systematic violence to maintain ...

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.

April 2, 2022 7:00 AM EDT Elkins is a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and author of the recently-released Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire ...