Britishness became an overarching imperial identity, eventually conveyed through Union Flags and maps of the Empire in Victorian-era classrooms throughout the United Kingdom. Identity construction ...

The United Kingdom could say goodbye to 5.3 million Scots. — -- If Scots vote for independence from the United Kingdom Thursday, the monarchy would lose not only the land of Scotch but about ...

USA TODAY compares the global reach of the British Empire in 1920 to the territory controlled by the United Kingdom today.

His latest monograph, published by CUP, is Union and Empire: The Making of the United Kingdom in 1707 (Cambridge, 2007). He is currently leading a collaborative research project on Mobility and ...