Empire

Graham Norton looks at dilapidated forts and castles in West Africa

Lawrence Freedman reviews two new works on the post-war balance of global power

Karl Hack on the links between dams and decolonisation and the ups and downs of Anglo-Malaysian relations.

Were the 'barbarians' who shored up Rome's armies and frontiers the empire's salvation or doom?

Fernando Cervantes explores the conversion process from polytheistic human sacrifice to devotion to the Mother Church.

Tom August explores the imperial assumptions - and the hints of independence from Britannia - to be found in the paintings and artists on show in the Palace of Arts at the British Empire Exhibition.

Alexander the Great has gone down as the wonder of the ancient world with his spectacular career and conquests but, John Grainger argues, a niche ought to be left for the junior general who carved out his own empire from the chaos that followed Alexander's death.

Edward Norman on the Eastern promise of Western sainthood to be encountered in the Church of the Bom Jesus in Goa.

Roland Oliver assesses