With Wolf Hall returning to the small screen this week, I predict a sudden revival of the Tudor aesthetic. Sadly, I don’t ...
Tartans are integral to UK style and culture, and fashion pieces in these patterns balance that British feel with a ...
The build is not only massive in scale, spanning thousands of blocks, but is also incredibly detailed given the limitations ...
The entrance to British designer Alice Temperley's Regency manor house in Somerset, UK, features Doric columns and a giant disco ball. It's an aesthetic described in the book as "bohemian-lady ...
putting the best British movies up against anywhere else in the world. Team Empire put our heads together, got into some spirited debates and ultimately came up with our choices. From Hitchcock to ...
And so, with tracksuits on, geezer nicknames doled out, and knuckles dusted, Team Empire assembled a list of the very best British gangster movies ever made. From comedy classics, to bruising turn ...
"Not many people these days know that the British Empire was the driving force behind ending the vast majority of global slavery. Slavery or de facto slavery was standard practice throughout the world ...
Elon Musk used references to the Bible to defend the British Empire’s role in the slave trade in his latest wide-of-the-mark tweet. The Tesla CEO provoked controversy on social media after ...
It didn’t matter to us that Ireland was not part of the British Empire any more, or that it generally received the sharp end of matters when it was. For me, such incongruities were not allowed ...
In 212AD an emperor called Caracalla extended Roman citizenship to all free people in the Roman empire, who had to pay him taxes and bear his name. His example later inspired the British empire to ...