There was a time when, to use the old adage, the sun did not set on the British Empire. It certainly didn’t back in 1920, ...

O n St George's Day one hundred years ago, King George V stepped on to the turf of the newly created Wembley Stadium to open ...

Crowds flocked to Kumasi, center of the Asante Kingdom, to see the recovered gold regalia, plundered by the British during ...

"The official guide talks about it as a kind of family party of Empire. This idea that you can have a kind of trip around the British Empire. That you're transporting yourself, you're going on a ...

Ridley Scott has been made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the UK film industry. He ...

Believe it or not, Rome was not always the centre of the Roman Empire. For a time, that honour went to Carlisle. Yes, the ...

Rana Mitter, vice president for public engagement, keen to move on from colonial guilt and post-Brexit introspection ...

Co-founder Mike Lubbock of Sylvan Heights Bird Park was awarded the prestigious honor of a Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by the King of England.

Five of the county's shining lights have officially received the medals honouring their service to the community of ...

On St George's Day one hundred years ago, King George V stepped on to the turf of the newly created Wembley Stadium to open the British Empire Exhibition - and in doing so became the first UK royal to ...