London has been described as a city built on the spoils of empire, prompting visitors, at least over a damp weekend in March, to wonder why more of these spoils weren’t spent on proper indoor heating.
A USEFUL cheap atlas with thirty-nine black and white maps of the British Empire. Most are only in outline, but a few show orographical features. The text consists solely of a chronological list of ...
This really is rather odd: especially as Jony Ives is now Sir Jony, a Knight of that very British Empire. It appears that Apple's implementation of country codes does not recognise the continued ...
THIS atlas consists of a series of maps chiefly representing the British Empire. They are very clearly printed, and some of them are decidedly good specimens of cartography. The bathyorographical map ...
Aiyaz Husain, a historian with the Policy Studies Division of the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State and author of the recently published “Mapping the End of Empire: American and ...
One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...
Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...
The sun is setting — literally, this time — on the British Empire. That’s the upshot of Prime Minister Starmer’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Britain’s former Indian Ocean colony, Mauritius.