It spread from the Americas to include colonies in Africa, Asia and Australasia. During this time Britain lost and gained colonies. During the early years of the British Empire, 13 colonies in ...

It offers a unique and scholarly history of the complexity of the British Empire through its origins, rise, fall and legacy. No subject is off limit. Its primary focus is on understanding the ...

The Battle of Isandlwana took place on 22 January 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. About 20,000 Zulu warriors, commanded by King Cetshwayo, defeated ...

A Royal Commission on East Africa has been set up to study this ... whose yields make Uganda the main cotton-producing center of the British Empire. It is a rain crop without irrigation, and ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: No empire wins every fight, not even the vaunted British. For centuries, the sun never set on the British Empire. But eclipses there were, and... Here’s What You ...

The history of RIBA is closely entwined with that of the British Empire, which expanded and consolidated its colonial grip around ... The Dominion Screen in the Florence Hall depicts the people, flora ...

"Soil Erosion and Soil Conservation in the Colonial Empire", by H. A. Tempany, G. M. Roddan and L. Lord (Emp. J. Exp, Agric, 12, 121; 1944), brings the story of soil conservation in the British ...

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a UK honours system that ... first, receiving South Africa's national honour, the Order of Ikhamanga in Silver (OIS), for excellent contributions ...

This award for “services to drama” was presented to Kani by British High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa ... Excellent Order of the British Empire by King Charles III.