Free limited-edition postcards will be given out in the UK in an attempt to revive the custom, as research finds only 8% of adults now send a card once a year

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared independence

According to dealer Martyn Downer, the silver plate of the exiled monarch could be “the only coffin plate of a Queen of England that will ever be on the market”

A thoughtfully researched book ranges from chromatic imperialism to race and the BBC’s “colour problem”