Britain has been forged and reforged over the last thousand years. It was conquered and then eventually built a great Empire. Motives for migration to and from Britain - economics and commerce A ...

World War Two had been extraordinarily costly for Britain and her empire, and in 1945 the country was exhausted and devastated. Aerial bombardment had destroyed many British cities, and there were ...

The 2020 protests by the Black Lives Matter movement and controversy over some public statues drew attention to aspects of Britain's imperial past - and its legacy. BBC News presenter Clive Myrie ...

In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...