Using AI to comb through hundreds of thousands of handwritten pages of port records, historians have constructed an interactive map of Britain’s maritime trading routes. Even as it expanded in Asia ...

A new book traces the rise of tea and how it became one of the first commodities of globalization. If you were to take a map of the Earth and trace the rise of tea industry and culture, and then ...

In a rip-roaring riposte to academics who despise our history, two Oxbridge professors explain how Britain became a beacon of ...

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In 1921, at the territorial height of the British Empire, 23 percent of the world's population lived under the rule of Great Britain. Things have changed considerably over the last century, though ...

The empire has fallen. Yet, only its shadow remains, still clinging to the ground.Key PointsThe British Empire began with the ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...