At the heart of the Trinity College grounds, Ireland’s oldest and most prestigious university, lies the country’s oldest library, a precious testimony to history and knowledge. Listed as one of the ...

A lot of history - Indian, British, African, empire - is packed into that one sentence. Author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera believes that Britain and the rest of the world should learn more of it.

Those of us who went to school before our past was rewritten as a catalog of the White Man’s crimes were taught that empire—with all its vices and virtues—was built by monarchs and statesmen ...