In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...

A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in the 19th and 20th centuries is something to be ...

Two ex-British colonies ditched the Pound Sterling as ... system and new trading treaties changed all that. Canada and Australia dumped the British Pound and took up their own version of the ...

The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading ...

there were seven of these British redoubts in St. Augustine when Florida was a British colony in the 1700s. Archaeologist Katherine Sims said there's evidence the redoubt was built in 1781.

In North America, the ‘right of soil’ was introduced by the British via their colonies, according to “The Evolution of Citizenship” study by Graziella Bertocchi and Chiara Strozzi.

In connection with the “raw materials” rationale for colonies, Ludwig von Mises pointed out ... It is of no advantage for an English buyer of Australian wool that Australia is a part of the British ...

Malaya (the mainland component of present-day Malaysia) was a key British colony prior to the Second World War ... The operations in Johore were entrusted to the 8th Australian Division, with an ...

Clues hiding in the details of a 400-year-old map could solve the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke that ... either as friends or slaves. In 2012, British Museum curator Kim Sloan and her ...

British and migrant threads. "We have every reason to be patriotic and proud today. Let’s celebrate the achievement of Australia, under one flag," he said.

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed by two minors, aged 15 and 16, after making a derogatory comment regarding the weight of one of the boys. According to Antop Hill Police, the victim allegedly ...