The Jubilee celebrations focussed on the Queen but also affirmed Britain's place as a global power. Soldiers from the British Empire marched in processions through London. Victoria held a feast ...

1838 was the second year of Queen Victoria’s reign. Looking at this single year, we can get a sense of the different experiences of life in the British Empire. In Jamaica, the abolition of ...

A new series charting the changes that occurred throughout the reign of Queen Victoria begins with this look at the explosive industrial growth of Britain. The Great Exhibition of 1851 was ...

During her reign the British Empire reached the height of its prestige and she was proclaimed Empress of India in 1877. She celebrated her Golden Jubilee in the Abbey in 1887 during which she sat in ...

In the days when the sun never set on the British Empire, there was only one woman who made Queen Victoria quake in her lace-up boots: Jind Kaur, the powerful Maharani of the Sikh Empire.

On the same day in May 1856 that Queen Victoria held a review in Hyde Park ... and paid the bills for the British-officered army that maintained a semblance of order. Overseeing the directors ...

But like many Brits of my generation (I was born the year before the coronation) my life has been bookended by the reign of Queen Elizabeth ... been lifted; the British Empire still ruled large ...

It remains unclear when then statue of Queen Victoria that was torn down by activists in Geelong’s Eastern Park last year ago ...