A cosy scent can turn a weary evening around. A pot, a few pantry staples, and steam do the heavy lifting. Across British homes this week, a vintage ...

After a fortnight of sodden runs, backyard flocks across Britain face tummy trouble. A pantry staple is suddenly in the spotlight. As rain batters coops ...

On April 5th, 1942, two Royal Navy heavy cruisers, hms Cornwall and Dorsetshire, were patrolling the Indian Ocean west of ...

Born in Ceylon to a civil servant and cricketer, Gilbert Clyde Roberts was schooled in Barbados, where his uncle was a member of the West Indies cricket squad in the 1910s. In the early 1920s, he ...

As this column, the last in the series is published, we will be approaching Armistice Day. November 11, 1918, was when the warring parties agreed that hostilities would cease at 11:11 a.m. in Central ...

One of the key drivers of the Portuguese and Dutch presence in Sri Lanka was to secure the monopoly of the lucrative Ceylon cinnamon trade. ..

Sri Lanka faces a renewed debate over prosecutorial independence as proposals to create a separate Public Prosecutor’s Office ...

Converted bombers would roar a few hundred feet above the sea dropping depth charges and firing rockets; with over 120 Allied ...

A theft from a museum of empire may look like payback, yet the spoils will still enrich the same world that built it.

Sri Lankan cuisine is both rich and varied and offers a peek into the culinary culture that underpins the food.

Dhaka’s Wari Christian Cemetery dates back to the late 16th century, established during the Mughal era for European settlers.

Tea was introduced to Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, by the British and has since become one of the country’s biggest exports. Amazingly, tea plucked by botanists 200 years ago is still kept in the UK ...