Foreign Affairs

Economic Planning in the British Colonies

UNTIL the decade before the last world war, British policy in the colonies had aimed chiefly at the establishment of order, the extension of the rule of law, the control of abuses, the creation of ...
Foreign Affairs

Britain’s Colonies in the War

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-kingdom/1941-04-01/britains-colonies-warhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-kingdom/1941-04-01 ...
Newsweek

BBC Series Empire Confronts British with Colonial Past

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The British, so the cliché goes, are a repressed lot. Faced with an ...
CNN

The homophobic legacy of the British Empire

A wave of joy and relief swept through India’s LGBT community last week following a landmark decision by the country’s Supreme Court to legalize consensual gay sex. The announcement that Section 377, ...
The New York Times

How British Colonies in the Far East Are Governed.

Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES By A Crown Colony Servant For Twenty Years. New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it ...
NPR

Britain Apologizes For Colonial-Era Torture Of Kenyan Rebels

A 60-year-old wound in Kenya has finally found its recompense. Last week, the British government finalized an out-of-court settlement with thousands of Kenyans who were tortured in detention camps ...

Why Florida stayed loyal to Britain instead of joining the American Revolution

Historians explain why East and West Florida remained loyal to Britain instead of joining the 13 colonies in declaring ...