British Mercantilism and Its Impact on American Colonies

Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

Queen Elizabeth II’s Death Is a Chance to Examine the Present-Day Effects of Britain’s Colonial Past

Some see Queen Elizabeth II's death as an opportunity to acknowledge the struggles of those who were affected by British ...

The British Empire was a millstone around our neck, not an asset

The rotting Old Republican Palace in Khartoum, first erected in the 1830s and rebuilt by the British in 1899 after the Battle ...
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The British Empire before the American Revolution

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 ...
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How the Christmas pudding, with ingredients taken from the colonies, became an iconic British food

The Christmas pudding, a legacy of the British Empire, is enjoyed around the world -- including in former British colonies. esp_imaging/iStock via Getty Images Plus As an American living in Britain in ...

Britain Can No Longer Hide Behind the Myth That Its Empire Was Benign

The British Empire was built and sustained on coercion and systematic violence. It's time to be honest about that fact.
The New York Times

PRAISE FOR THE COLONIES; Brilliant Gathering at British Empire League Banquet. Speech by Prince of Wales -- Lord Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain Oppose Immediate Colonial Fusion.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
The Grio

Yes, it’s the Queen’s Jubilee, but the Black people in former British colonies are not feeling it

LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But in Britain’s former colonies, many see her as an anchor to an ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

India’s gay sex ban was a relic of the British Empire – but it’s still in place in dozens of ex-colonies

Reporting from Mumbai, IndiaReporting from Mumbai, India — When India’s Supreme Court this week legalized same-sex intercourse between consenting adults, it buried, most likely forever, a 157-year-old ...
The Atlantic

The British Empire's Homophobia Lives On in Former Colonies

NAIROBI—When the Nigerian writer Unoma Azuah was growing up in the Asaba Niger Delta, she once asked her grandmother about a teenage boy in her village with an effeminate aura whom others would tease, ...
Los Angeles Times

Back Story: India’s gay sex ban was a relic of the British Empire — but it’s still in place in dozens of ex-colonies

Reporting from Mumbai, India — When India’s Supreme Court this week legalized same-sex intercourse between consenting adults, it buried, most likely forever, a 157-year-old law introduced during ...