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 ...

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 ...

As the British Empire expanded through the long 19 th century ... A new unit -- The India Office – was established at Whitehall to oversee the administration of colonies from the Middle East to South ...

During the heyday of the British empire, thousands of women from India and other parts of Asia were brought to London to look after young children - but many of these nannies were later abandoned ...

Excerpted with permission from South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought: Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law, Faisal Chaudhry, Oxford University Press.

THE British Empire has reportedly drained India of $64.82 trillion and significantly stifled the country’s industrial growth ...

The Chinese ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming had previously accused some British politicians of viewing Hong Kong "as part of the British empire".

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...

The history of RIBA is closely entwined with that of the British Empire, which expanded and consolidated its colonial grip around the world during the institute’s formative years in the 19th and early ...