Military: During World War II, more than 300,000 East Africans fought for Britain in Ethiopia, Madagascar and Burma. For the first time, some of the neediest are receiving aid--from their former ...

'Marvellous' British WW2 film that Churchill tried to ban is on ITVX In a time of crisis, ... Defeats in Southeast Asia and North Africa had left the nation’s morale battered.

The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters and, consequently, more blacks fought for the Crown. An estimated 100,000 African Americans escaped, died or were killed during ...

Denis Gibbs was an officer in the Royal Corps of Signals and served in North Africa and Italy between 1943 and 1945. During the war, he kept a personal diary detailing his daily experiences ...

In former British colonies, ghosts of past haunt mourning for queen ‘Colonialism is history in the West,’ said a South African writer. ‘But in our countries, colonialism is now.’ ...