The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

In terms of size, the British Empire was at its largest in the years following World War One, when it gained some of Germany’s former colonies. This was because Germany had lost World War One ...

Two ex-British colonies ditched the Pound Sterling ... it created what was known as the Sterling Area - a zone where former colonies pegged their currency to the Pound's exchange rate.

Even for our former African colonies – the area the British public are most likely to say suffered from the empire – the number of Conservative and Reform UK voters who think they benefited ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were. The British believed Africans ... Senegal, our former Prime Minister, Mamadou Dia, asked us to leave the French army ...

But the atmosphere in the city was different from other former British colonies. According to John Carroll, a history professor at the University of Hong Kong, the city’s unique history played a ...

Suella Braverman has slapped down claims that the British countryside is 'racist and colonial', declaring: 'We need to stop making white people feel guilty for being white'. The former Home ...

Many of the newly digitised items show daily life in former British colonies. "To understand racism you really need to understand empire," said archivist Jayne Pucknell. "We don't look at our past ...