To aid in navigation:” the political economy of cotton in the Portuguese Empire. In 1790, British envoy Robert Walpole asked Luís Pinto de Sousa Coutinho, the Portuguese Sec ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Since 2020 our team has been investigating the links between the RA and its colonial past. Research into the Royal Academy of ...

1770, the free Black Crispus Attucks — credited by some as sparking the American Revolution — was the first to die in opposition to British injustice. Re-enactments of the Massacre that killed ...

The British army veteran prosecuted for silently praying in front of an abortion clinic was, to his own surprise, caught in the global spotlight when his case was cited by U.S. Vice President JD Vance ...

In ‘The Invention of British Art’, Bendor Grosvenor explores how the ‘commissioning classes’ have long influenced the making ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

The museum, filled with treasures from around the world, is also facing growing pressure to return artifacts taken from other countries during the period of the British Empire – notably the ...

In 1969, when I came from India to study, I showed a professor a book I had detailing the harm the British had caused to India. I hoped this would stimulate a discussion about the empire.

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George ...