The British Empire began in the late 1500s under Queen Elizabeth I. By 1913 the empire had grown to rule over 400 million people, making it the largest empire in history. British government and ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

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 ...

These were the 12 biggest empires (by area) ever put together, ranging from vast confederations on the Asian steppes to ...

But with support for Brexit partly explained by pundits as imperial nostalgia, and the sweeping rise of the global Black Lives Matter movement, the imperative and importance of studying the British ...

Rather than being made to pay for its plundering, there’s something even more devastating and long-lasting that the British could do – educate itself properly about its colonial history, says Mihir Bo ...

The British Empire was the largest empire in history. At its height in 1922, it covered around a quarter of Earth's land surface and ruled over 458 million people.

My study demonstrates that the colonial dispensary across the British Empire became more than simply a small, idle medical service in the past. My argument is twofold. First, I argue that the ...