The transfer of Britain’s “last African colony” to Mauritius has sparked deep opposition, mistrust, and disappointment from multiple quarters. The dispute over the Chagos Archipelago remains a potent ...

1815–1914 (1976), is the distillation of a lifetime’s learning and teaching about the British Empire. The earlier work, Ronald Hyam explains, was a kind of ‘user’s handbook’. The present study, based ...

M. Gessen is an Opinion columnist for The Times. They won a George Polk Award for opinion writing in 2024. They are the ...

A history professor explored his forthcoming book and urged historians to recognize anti-colonialist history narratives in a Feb. 19 webinar. Esmat Elhalaby, a colonialist historian and assistant ...

A private all-female liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, is offering students the opportunity to learn about "the social construction of gender" in the biblical world with a religion ...

Literary journals proliferated across colonial Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa in the decades around decolonization. In her lecture, literary scholar Alexandra Reza (University of Bristol ...

Today the Falkland Islands made a heartfelt and very human entreaty to the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24). Chair of the Legislative Assembly, MLA Mark Pollard and Deputy ...

US president Donald Trump’s proposal to annex the Gaza Strip and transfer its two million Palestinian inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan has provoked a predictable outcry. Virtually all Arab states, led ...