The British Empire was the largest empire in history. At its height in 1922, it covered around a quarter of Earth's land ...

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Once among Bengal’s richest men, Dwarkanath Tagore built a sprawling business empire under the British, only to see it ...

A flagship British project created to improve the safety of medical surgery around the world could shut down next year ...

The idea that Britain 'sacrificed her empire' to defeat the Nazis is pub wisdom at best To fully understand a heroic moment ...

They refuelled and rearmed aircraft while dodging enemy bombs... then rescued comrades from blazing downed planes. As a new ...

The first episode of Jennifer Saunders’ sitcom, Absolutely Fabulous, aired on November 12 1992. The show was a huge success ...

Right before writing this column this morning, I watched the magnificent 1935 MGM version of Mutiny on the Bounty starring ...

Apart from watching Simpson perform in Test and first-class matches in India and in Australia, I wrote cricket articles with ...

After the Second World War, there were great efforts to prevent that type of war and its atrocities from ever happening again ...