Abdullah Yusuf Ali wrote perhaps the most famous translation of the Quran but he also supported the British against the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on ...

So, what would you wear if you were being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire? (I confess I have personally ...

In the new film of Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, the writer and director Patricia Rozema includes an early scene that is not in the book. As Fanny Price departs from her family in Portsmouth to ...

Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, an author and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. Raised in London, Bergen has a ...

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One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink. By Matthew Parker. PublicAffairs; 624 pages; $35. Abacus; £25 Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain. By Charlotte Lydia Riley. Bodley Head ...

Acclaimed novelist Maggie O'Farrell has revealed that she turned down an OBE because she did not want the words “British Empire” attached to her name. In an interview with The Irish Times, the Hamnet ...