Gibraltar’s economy, once dominated by the military, is now based mostly on tourism. And that includes quickie weddings — ...

Chinese and Hong Kong flags on Friday mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China from Britain. Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the ...

After two centuries, New Smyrna’s original town plan is beginning to take shape again. Archaeologists and historians in the southeast Volusia County city have been piecing together – artifact by ...

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PROFESSOR SEELEY has pointed out, in his work on The Expansion of England, the prevailing tendency to look upon those conditions which we observe around us as having always existed, and to consider ...

Many uniformed critics of Israel criticize the establishment of Israel and claim that Israel was established as a colonial outpost of Great Britain. The statement is absurd and easily disproven.

This Friday marks an important but mostly forgotten anniversary of an odd but oddly resonant chapter of Pacific Northwest history north of the border. It was on Jan. 13, 1849 that Great Britain ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans were ...

LONDON (AP) — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But in Britain’s former colonies, many see her as an anchor to an ...

My mother, now a New Yorker, grew up speaking the Queen’s English. Her father was an Anglophile who excelled as a lawyer in a British legal system. He dressed in tweed jackets, drank tea with milk and ...

BEIJING — Hong Kong is preparing to introduce new middle school textbooks that will deny the Chinese territory was ever a British colony. China’s Communist rulers say the semiautonomous city and the ...