Two ex-British colonies ditched the Pound Sterling ... it created what was known as the Sterling Area - a zone where former colonies pegged their currency to the Pound's exchange rate.

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

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Changing maps to say "Gulf of America" doesn't change history, and likely won't change what most people call the massive ...

The Americans had yet to declare independence, but revolution was brewing. The letter, addressed to “The Inhabitants of the ...

But the atmosphere in the city was different from other former British colonies. According to John Carroll, a history professor at the University of Hong Kong, the city’s unique history played a ...

THIS valuable work has been published at an opportune moment, for the decisions of the Imperial Government in such matters as the withdrawal of the white troops and the non-renewal of the mail ...

Like the constitutions that were adopted by former British colonies in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, Union replicated the outward forms of the British Constitution (regular elections, the ...

The Revolutionary War's Battle of Camden did not go well for the Continental Army or its patriot militias. Following France's entry into the war on the American side, the British subdued its ...

much like some of their former colonies. In the UK, it was scrapped by the British Nationality Act of the 1980s, which put in place several conditions to qualify for British citizenship ...

NICK WRIGHT examines the British ruling class's complex relationship with fascism before, during and after the second world ...