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 ...

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 ...

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

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 British Empire, which I loathe with a passion, wasn't won with courage but with the machine gun," Deary told All About History magazine. "The British had the machine gun, the native ...

empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Broadly conceived, my research is concerned with the reciprocal relationship between early modern Britain and the Caribbean plantation system. I am ...

The British Empire Medal was in recognition of the service that my taid gave to the mine. He was actually there for 57 years of his 71 years at the time he received his medal. He received the medal on ...

The wealth the British extracted from India 'would be enough to carpet the surface area of London in British pound 50 notes ...