The exhibition, titled GBR – Geology of Britannic Repair, is a collaboration between a multi-disciplinary team of curators – ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

In 2025, it is unfathomable that the people of Garissa are still forced to defend their ancestral land against a relic of colonial-era cartography, the so-called Three-Mile Strip. Originally conceived ...

Documents held by the UK for nearly 78 years and seen by MEE include secret messages sent by the first prime ministers of ...

Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. By W. W. A. FitzGerald. Pp. xxiv + 774. Maps and illustrations. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1898.) ...

As Europe celebrates the 80th anniversary of its triumph over fascism and the end of World War II, Algeria is remembering a darker anniversary: the colonial-era massacres that unfolded on the same day ...

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

Achieving independence as the United States of America was a lengthy and unlikely struggle for the 13 original colonies. Over ...

lived in Foxton in the early 1930s - their home was built in 1705 and is of historic interest The scientist was born in 1903 in British East Africa, now known as Kenya. His parents were English ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial ...

The latest row comes as Prince Harry has been widely criticised in the British ... Middle East Eye delivers independent and unrivalled coverage and analysis of the Middle East, North Africa ...

This time the volcano Krakatoa, in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, erupted. News of the colossal eruption was quickly carried on gutta-percha-coated underwater cables between Java and ...