MSNBC host Ali Velshi got involved in a heated on-air clash with a British historian over the royal family’s “ugly” connections to colonialism and slavery. Mr Velshi introduced his Saturday morning ...

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...

In May 2024, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade Kemi Badenoch claimed that Britain was enriched by national “ingenuity and industry” rather than by colonialism and trans-Atlantic ...

LONDON (AP) – Eric Hobsbawm, who has died aged 95, was honored as one of Britain’s most distinguished historians, despite retaining an allegiance to the Communist Party that lasted long after many ...

Arnold Toynbee, noted British historian who has provoked considerable criticism among Jews for anti-Jewish and anti-Israel assertions in his “Study of History,” reiterates his views in a letter to the ...

British historian Andrew Roberts clashed with MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Saturday over the anchor’s claims that while many loved Queen Elizabeth II, other people throughout the world are tired of the ...

NPR's Lauren Frayer speaks to Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacie about her new film on the Palestinian uprising against the British army in 1936. It's called "Palestine 36." The new movie ...

British historian David Starkey surrendered his honorary fellowship at the University of Cambridge, the school announced Friday, after he said that the enslavement of black people wasn’t a genocide ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. In this episode the hosts interview Professor Harvey Kaye about a new edition of his book The British Marxist Historians, which tells the story of ...

British criticism of an award-winning 2006 film about the Irish War of Independence reflects unwillingness by modern British society to accept that Crown Forces engaged in a brutal campaign in Ireland ...

Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, 73, noted British historian died today. Dr. Namier served as political secretary for the Jewish Agency from 1929 to 1931. Dr. Namier was born in Warsaw and became a ...

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 ...