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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The project aims to bring together the growing number of socio-legal scholars who are currently working on the histories of age of consent in the British Empire in order to form an international ...