With the end of British colonial rule in 1947, the Indian subcontinent was divided into two nations, majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan. But simmering secular tensions and a hastily ...

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Histories of Zionism in the interwar period usually focus on Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. In this fascinating account, Imber widens the aperture to include South Asia and South ...

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Shane Lowry poses with the trophy after winning the 148th Open Championship. / Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images The British Open returns to Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland this weekend for the 153rd Open ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ruled a quarter of the earth’s landmass, has seen its overseas empire reduced ...

A book which will be welcome to many who have found it impossible to keep track of the rapidly changing relationships between different parts of the British Empire. The book is distinguished by ...

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Traders almost always come first. British monarchs never set out to conquer North America with their armies, but by the mid-1700s, a century and a half of trade and settlement had made the continent ...

It was during a Tory rally on July 20, 1957, organized to commemorate 25 years of public service by Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton as MP for the constituency of bucolic Mid ...