colonial

The Daily Telegraph leads with a story saying the prime minister "will consider investments in healthcare and education as redress for colonial past" under the headline "Burnham open to slavery payouts".

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Caribbean tour has again thrust King Charles into the difficult debates over the UK's colonial legacy in the region.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

His grandfather Lewis Morris became the colonial governor of New Jersey; his father, Lewis Morris Jr., was an admiralty court judge in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

At an execution site of local people during British colonial times, the king paused to reflect in a gesture meant to indicate his awareness of this past injustice.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

In 1896, revolutionaries in the Philippines rose in opposition to Spanish colonial rule.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Many Americans in this 250th year of independence will look back proudly on those colonials who rebelled against British taxation by dumping tea in Boston Harbor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Proponents of prohibition argued that drinking culture was alien to India – while that’s debatable, the colonials filled their coffers with the liquor tax and certainly encouraged it.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025

The houses — in a mix of styles including split-levels and Dutch colonials — are on quarter-acre lots surrounded by mature trees and shrubs.

From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022

In western and southern 22207, new construction is beginning to overtake the postwar ranches, colonials, and split-levels built in the first wave of suburbanization.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2020

He despised those American colonials who had fought against his England, yet he still chose to settle in Philadelphia, where he set up a royalist newspaper called The Porcupine's Gazette.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy