No justice: 75 years after a British massacre in colonial Malaya. British soldiers killed 24 innocent people in the opening months of the 'Malayan Emergency' in 1948.

The British, who find glorious words for both victories and defeats, have an expression for their retreat from imperialism. They call it “creative abdication.” In Malaya, Britain’s rubber ...

From Northern Ireland to Kenya to Malaya, Queen Elizabeth II oversaw violence during her reign across the shrinking British Empire ...

Malaya. British army counterinsurgency learning during the Malayan emergency, 1948-1951 -- The empire strikes back: British army counterinsurgency in Malaya, 1952-1957 -- pt. 3. Vietnam. The U.S ...

It lives on in court cases, including one brought in 2019 by indigenous people of the Chagos Islands, whom the British colonial government forcibly relocated in 1965-73 (with American support).

The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. Was this part of the problem? Sunil Khilnani on Caroline Elkins’s “Legacy of Violence: A History of the British ...

The British Empire isn’t ancient history; it was still a huge power in the 20th century. Can you give us a sense of what that empire was like? The British Empire was the largest in history.