The great British public have always loved a good failure- Scott, Shackleton and Oates (to name several Antarctic-related examples) all beca...

One to file in the 'I Can't Believe Somebody Actually Wrote This' category (alongside that study of the films of Steven Segal, S...

'Doctor Livingstone, I presume?' Sigh. If only Henry Morton Stanley knew the can of misery-worms he was about to unleash upon the wo...

(This not really an Empire-related article- but I've stuck it here anyway.) There's a well-known, if apocryphal, story that frequent...

This was intended to be a mini-review. (That's right. I didn’t think I had too much to say about Lawrence of Arabia .) The reason for th...

What do you get when you mix British colonialism, Oriental mystery and the occult? Questionable history and a stonking good story, that'...

Somebody once said that Richard Attenborough's Ghandi is 'not a movie, but a laboriously-illustrated textbook' (thanks, World...