SHENZHEN, China — At the stroke of midnight on July 1, 1997, the British flag over Hong Kong was lowered and the Chinese flag was raised at a ceremony marking the end of more than a century and a half ...

UNTIL the decade before the last world war, British policy in the colonies had aimed chiefly at the establishment of order, the extension of the rule of law, the control of abuses, the creation of ...

Colonial Williamsburg, capital of the British colony of Virginia, has been preserved as a sprawling museum. Its mission: that "the future may learn from the past." The crown jewels of Williamsburg, ...

BEIJING — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a British colony. China’s Communist rulers say the semiautonomous city and the ...

In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, file photo, anti-government protesters carry British flags as residents gather to protest a teenage demonstrator shot at close range in the chest by a police officer ...

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-kingdom/1941-04-01/britains-colonies-warhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-kingdom/1941-04-01 ...

This Friday marks an important but mostly forgotten anniversary of an odd but oddly resonant chapter of Pacific Northwest history north of the border. It was on Jan. 13, 1849 that Great Britain ...

NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great Britain and ...

Many uniformed critics of Israel criticize the establishment of Israel and claim that Israel was established as a colonial outpost of Great Britain. The statement is absurd and easily disproven.

At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this ...